Floral & Gingham Vellum cheery Happy Birthday card

I typically don’t work with vellum too often. Like many folks, I find it somewhat daunting to use in that vellum isn’t porous (like paper or card stock is) and adhesive usually  is visible through it. Plus writing also shows through it. So, there are  many issues related to using vellum to consider in your card design. But I loved the new Floral and Gingham Vellum pack, and decided to overcome my hesitations!

So here’s the card I ended up designing:

I don't have the corresponding stamp and die set so I had to improvise and punched flowers using a long ago retired flower punch punched in Daffodil Delight and Lemon Lolly card stock colors. 

The embossing folder used for the Balmy Blue strips is the Distressed Tile embossing folder. I've used this folder many a times and have loved the look each time. And the Hexagon Punch was used for the sentiment. I didn't like the white edge of the sentiment label on the vellum so I punched an "edge" of hexagon punch and adhered it behind it. This added a border "mat" and at the same time, a touch of dimension!

Normally when you write in a card with the vellum on the top, you can see through it and see the personal words written in it. So I added another card layer, 10.5x4" and scored in half, and adhered that to the inside of the card base. This allowed for a layer of card stock that would hide any hand written words. 

and rather than do my usual of adding a scrap strip of the DSP on the inside of the card I decided to STAMP the borrow border. I used a stamp from the January 2021 Paper Pumpkin Kit called Sending Hearts. It had an adorable combo of 6 mini flowers and hearts. Stamping it repeatedly created the perfect border! And to reduce any confusion, I also stamped on the "cover" of this inside flap:

And to show the border off, I cut off about 1" off the top of the inner panel. Well I think I covered it all. Hope you enjoyed this card! And remember to have an awesome day!