Remember How Special You Are

Inspiration

My favorite paper for using COPIC markers is Stamper's Select White from Papertrey Ink. When I ordered a new stash a couple of weeks ago, I saw a stamp set called "Harvest Berries" that I immediately fell in love with. Here is a birthday card that is a CASE of a card made by Betsy Veldman. It is featured on her blog, and in the Papertrey Ink gallery. I used a monochromatic color theme, but changed little else - Betsy designed a beautiful layout - just perfect for the leaves and the sentiment!

Ingredients

Note: Finished card size is 5" x 7"

Paper

Perfect Plum (SU!)	7" x 10"; scored at 5"
Pale Plum (SU!)	4 3/4" x 6 3/4", and additional scraps

Inks

Perfect Plum (SU!)

Pale Plum (SU!)

Stamps

Harvest Berries (Papertrey Ink)

Accessories

Frosted Lace Stickles (Ranger)

Ribbon (Offray)

Bow-Easy

3-D Foam Squares (3L)

Glue dots

Zip-Dry glue

ATG (Scotch)

Scor-Pal

Scissors (Cutter Bee)

Rotary trimmer (Fiskars)

Instructions

BASE CARD

Cut the base card from the dark purple card stock, measuring 7" x 10", score at 5", and fold.

IMAGE LAYER

Cut the image layer from the light purple card stock, measuring 4 3/4" x 6 3/4". Stamp the small leaf images in light purple ink along the sides of this layer. Stamp the large leaf images in light purple ink at the top and bottom of the layer - this will create a "shadow" image behind the dark purple leaves.

Stamp the sentiment in dark purple ink in the center of the layer. Adhere a strip of ribbon under the sentiment.

Mount the image layer to the front of the card.

FINAL TOUCHES

Stamp the large leaf images on the scrap pieces of light purple card stock using the dark purple ink, and trim closely. Mount them on the card front using foam squares, slightly to the left of the matching light purple images. Highlight the berry trios with the sparkly Stickles.

Tie a multi-loop bow, and mount just below the sentiment.

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