Tag/Bookmark Birthday Card

This week our sweet Carol Mayne is hostess and the challenge is Anything Goes with a Die - Birthday card at Just Us Girls #765. We have a new Guest Designer, Jeanne Jachna, for the month of March. Be sure to check out her amazing work on her blog as well as each of our team members!

I was given some dies by a friend and I had already been looking at the whole suite of books and shelves, stencils, dies and stamp sets. I decided to play with the dies today and ended up with this card with a detachable tag/bookmark on a birthday theme. I was excited to find teeny tiny sentiment stamps in my stash that fit perfectly on the spines of the books. The card comes with a little birthday gift for a reading fan.

Products I used:

Waffle Flower - Cat-a-log die (books)

My Favorite Things - Mini Messages stamp set

Hero Arts - Infinity dies: tags

Your Paper Insider - Blush cardstock (super smooth and nice sturdiness)

Altenew - Obsidian Black ink pad

Concord and 9th - mini ink pads

Lawn Fawn - woodgrain cardstock

Black fine point Sharpie

Scotch Post-it tape (for masking)

I die cut the tag, books and shelves. I ink blended all of it, masking off each book from the next. Using more Post-it tape, I masked off the strips on the edge of the books. I stamped the birthday greetings on the books and added some black lines to a few books with a Sharpie. Creating each book took the most time. In case you can't read what the books are titled:

Amazing

(heart)

birthday

My best friend

From me to you

Beautiful

Let's Celebrate

Smile

Gorgeous Girl

 Love

I adhered the shelves and books to the tag and added some iridescent sequin "cord " to the top of the tag.

I cut the blush mat for the A2 white card base with this great quality, smooth cardstock from Your Paper Insider, then cut mini strips in the same colors as the books. I adhered the strips to the center of the blush mat.

Not sure how I will attach the tag temporarily to the card so it can be removed to use as a bookmark. My temporary tape runner ran out so...I guess I need to get a refill.

For this challenge, we have two easy-peasy 'rules' for you to follow to put you in the running to be selected as a Winner of the Week or highlighted for a Shout out.

1. Your card must be a birthday card.

2. You must use at least one die that is birthday-themed: a sentiment, cake, candles, balloons, party hats, and so on.  

See you soon,

Carol