Hi everyone. I’ve got another birthday card today, this time featuring Bowl of from Mo Manning. The image comes with separate images to put in the bowl, I chose hearts for my card today.
I’ll admit, I struggled putting this one together. I had a stray pink Copic streak on the left side of the image, and no matter how times I used my blender on it, it was just too stubborn to go away. I decided to cut it off, I wasn’t about to redo the entire image. I sort of had a plan, but that didn’t really work, so I wound up diecutting a scrap piece of 7 Dots Studio patterned paper to go behind my image.
I used the same patterned paper for my sentiment strip, which I stamped with a Norsk Stempelblad AS stamp and then diecut using one of the Fishtail Flag Frames dies from My Favorite Things. The pink patterned paper behind the sentiment strip is actually the other side of that same patterned paper. I thought it fit my Papertrey Ink Berry Sorbet cardstock pretty well, in addition to the pink in the actual image. The pink cardstock is debossed with an impression plate from Papertrey Ink and then diecut with a stitched rectangle die from My Favorite Things. I also added some enamel dots in coordinating colors, as well as a couple of scraps of some doilies I had in my stash.
I popped up the entire image using foam tape – lots of it, I’m not shy when I use foam tape.

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I colored her with my Copics in the colors shown at the bottom of this post, and diecut her using a stitched rectangle die from My Favorite Things. I added her with lots of foam tape to a piece of Papertrey Ink Aqua Mist cardstock that I embossed using a quilted backdrop die from Lawn Fawn, and added some 2 mm Kort & Godt pearls to the background for a little bit of extra interest.
I diecut my sentiment using a small stitched circle die, also from MFT. I punched out a 1″ circle out of some Aqua Mist cardstock that I glued my stitched circle to. I stamped a Norsk Stempelblad AS sentiment in a combination of Doll Pink ink from Simon Says Stamp and Autumn Rose ink from Papertrey Ink. Neither of the colors matchet my image on their own, but together they were perfect.
As you can see from this photo, my main panel is popped up from the rest of the card, keeping the focus on her.
I colored her up in reds with a really dark night sky background and lots of snow flurrying through the air. I diecut her and put her on a scalloped circle. Added a few diecut snowflakes and a charm shaped like mittens for a little bit of embellishment.
I stamped a sentiment (No peeking! – not to be opened until Christmas Eve!) on a 1″ circle and glued a pebble on top, just for that tiny bit of dimension.
The back of the tag is very simple. More diecut snowflakes, a stitched snowflake circle and a To/From stamp from Norsk Stempelblad AS, stamped using Papertrey Ink Scarlet Jewel ink. I added tiny Kort & Godt pearls to the center of each of the snowflakes.
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I diecut the banners, as well as the main panel, using dies from My Favorite Things. MFT dies are my favorite, they’re so versatile. I glued part of a doily underneath my banners and stamped a Norsk Stempelblad AS sentiment on the biggest one (It says “BIRTHDAY – a special day that brings together people you love” in Norwegian).
I used a small star punch for my yellow stars, and added a few veneer ones from Studio Calico to put something on the front that wasn’t made from paper. I added a couple of enamel dots to finish it off, simply because the pink color matched everything else perfectly.
I put a tiny cluster on the inside. Another banner diecut using an MFT die, another veneer star and also a polaroid frame, diecut with another MFT die – told you they’re my favorite. A couple of punched little pink hearts and another Norsk Stempelblad AS sentiment (Happiness is being one year older), and my card was done.
Jeg valgte en fargepalett i turkis og jordtoner i beige og brun for kortet mitt. Jeg har bygget opp kortet lag på lag og rufset kantene litt. Dorota bruker mye søm på kortene sine. Jeg var bortreist på DT-helg med Ett trykk-jentene da jeg lagde dette kortet, så jeg hadde ikke symaskinen min tilgjengelig. Resultatet ble at jeg sydde for hånd. Jeg målte opp og lagde hull i mønsterarket på forhånd, så det skulle bli lik lengde på alle stingene og lettere å sy.
Mønsterarkene kommer fra Summer Feelings-serien til Studiolight, og jeg har laget strimler av dem og lagt lagvis oppå hverandre. Jeg stanset ut en kakeserviett fra Cheery Lynn i det ene arket og en annen med en die fra CottageCutz som jeg stemplet teksten min på med Distress Oxide Ink i fargen Peacock Feathers.
Elsi hadde en blomst jeg kunne få som passet ganske perfekt i fargen, og jeg har pyntet veldig enkelt med den og noen pyntebær fra Kort & Godt, i tillegg til en turkis ranke som jeg ikke aner opphavet på. Jeg surret litt mer hamp rundt og rundt og la under teksten for å plukke opp hampen fra kanten av kortet. Til slutt vannet jeg ut litt Distress Oxide Ink og splattet tilfeldig på kortet.
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I wanted to embellish the inside, too, but make it very simple. I took the diecut frame left from the banner on the front and glued it to my white cardstock before stamping a sentiment in red. I diecut a small yellow patterned paper circle for an extra bit of detail, and that’s it.
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I tillegg til arkene har jeg brukt en blanding av blomster fra Wild Orchid Crafts og Papirdesign. Jeg har også stukket inn noen grønne blader her og der.
På innsiden har jeg brukt litt andre ark. Det rosa er et gammelt et fra den gangen arkene fra Maja Design var ensidige og hadde litt skinn Det gule er fra Coffee in the Arbour-kolleksjonen og det grønne er et veldig tynt ensidig ark av ukjent produsent. Teksten fra B03-platen til Norsk Stempelblad AS er stemplet med Memento Bamboo Leaves, og spruten rundt er stemplet med Splash-stempelet til Inkido med Distress Ink Mustard Seed. Scallopsirkelen er laget med en die fra Papirdesign.
Baksiden har nok et NSB-stempel, og også her har jeg pyntet veldig enkelt med blomster og blader.
I colored her with my Copics and cut my panel down. I wanted to use some scraps of Maja Design patterned paper, so I glued the plaid one and a tiny sliver of red right next to it before putting my panel on foam tape and gluing it to the front of my card.
I stamped and heat embossed a birthday sentiment on a 1″ circle I made from the patterned paper, and glued it to my panel with a pebble on top.
The pebble adds a little bit of shine to an otherwise simple card. So do the enamel dots I put on the left.
Jeg bestemte meg for at jeg skulle lage disse som et sett, så de matcher. Jeg har brukt mønsterark fra Vintage Summer Basics-serien til Maja Design på begge to, samme stempelpute og også en del av pynten er lik. I hver spiss på vinskjuleren har jeg satt en malje fra Making Memories for å forsterke hullene som tråden skal gjennom. På rammen har jeg limt 2mm perler fra Kort & Godt tett i tett rundt hele ringen for å pynte opp litt ekstra.
Kortet har jeg laget litt lag på lag. Jeg har brukt den samme rammen her som på vinskjuleren, og stemplet en tekst fra Norsk Stempelblad AS med Papertrey Ink Autumn Rose blekk rett på det ene mønsterarket. Jeg har pyntet enkelt med blomster og en perlestreng og lagt en tynn blonde bak som en slags ekstra ramme.
Jeg har laget hovedfokuset på kortet som en shakerboks, med glassperler inni. Disse perlene er kjempegamle, min bestemor kjøpte dem på bokhandelen på Åndalsnes en gang på åttitallet, men de matcher jo mønsterarket HELT perfekt.
I found some scraps of mostly green patterned paper from Maja Design. I had no idea that the club he plays at is named Green Joy, so that was pure luck. I added his age on a flag, thought it was fitting. Not that there’s 50 holes on a course (that much I know), but I’m guessing he gets it anyway.
I colored up my golfer to fit my papers and added a bit of green below his feet and the ball. I love his tongue sticking out, he’s SO focused on making that put!
I added a little cluster of banners in the lower left corner, with a sentiment on one of them. It says “a man at his best age” in Norwegian. I stamped it in Papertrey Ink Dark Chocolate ink and added a few veneer stars from Studio Calico as accents.
The inside basically has the same design. I made a pocket for some cash on the left side, with a diecut sentiment and some more stars.
The back is also pretty simple, the first line of a Norwegian birthday song stamped in the same dark brown color that I used for the sentiment on the front of the card. I scattered a few stars here, as well.