SUMMER BIRTHDAY WINDOW

Summer
Birthday Window

I am proud to be a part of the Poppystamps Design Team. I hope you enjoy card designed to bring a smile to the faces of those with late summer birthdays. A great feature of the Poppystamps Grand Madison French Doors is that you can use them closed or open. If you want to create a dimensional look on the Grand Madison French
Doors simple stack 3D foam adhesives to the back of the windows.  To give a little dimension use one or if you need a little more clearance to frame a scene pair them and adhere to your background.

 

Supplies you will need:

Poppystamps Dies:

Grand Madison French Doors (849)

Grassland Border  (825)

Curious Cat (875)

Curvy Stem (851) 

Memory Box Dies:

Petite Cake (98547)

Primula Bloom (98149)

Scalloped Cake Stand (98541)

Garden Pots (98532)

Dancing Butterflies (98576)

Memory Box Paper:
Vanilla Bean (10N Notecard, 44044 paper)

SH-Lavender (44021)

SH-Sunflower (44041)

SH-Meadow (44024)

SH-Cherry Blossom (44004)*

SH-Dill (44010)

Other:

Foam adhesive squares, glue,
adhesive tape, glue dots, scissors or paper-trimmer, glitter, die-cut machine,
ink for stamping greeting

Prepare the base card:

Step 1:  Take your cardstock and
score the front horizontally at inch intervals. 
My cardstock, Vanilla Bean, is from Memory Box.

Step 2:  Rotate your card vertically and beginning on
the first section score at ½”, 1”, and 1 ½” and so forth to the end of that line.  Next, begin scoring the next line at 1”, 2”,
3” and so forth to the end of the card. 
Continue alternating how you scored the first section and second section
until you have created a brick pattern to the top of the front of the card.

Prepare the cake:

 Step 1:  Complete the die cutting.  Die cut the cake layers, the cake stand, and
make several die cuts of the Primula Bloom in two colors.   Apply glue to the cake and then cover with
ultra-fine glitter – let dry!

Step 2:  Select the flowers (from the Primula Bloom)
and colors you wish to affix to each cake layer.  Make sure you have a green color suitable for
a leaf and make a cut of that as well. 

Assemble the flowers
if you wish to add more than 1 flower to each layer.  On the Primula Bloom you will see a
leaf.  I cut that leaf off as well as the
largest bloom for this cake. 

Assemble the window Scene:

Step 1:  Cut out a background for
the wallpaper or “paint” color of the interior room.  Apply foam squares to the French doors. Place
foam squares on the back of each layer of the cake and put onto the background
paper (here it is the latte polka dotted Memory Box paper). Place the cake
stand (also on foam adhesive square). 
Apply the flowers to the cake and then glue the “frosting” to each cake
layer. Note, the frosting layers are here in lavender. 

Step 2:  Cut out the cat.  Once the cake is complete adhere the cat with
a foam adhesive. Then position your French doors over the top of the paper
scene.  Note: If you are going to open
your doors as pictured here, make sure you open them before you glue to background
scene. 

Complete the card:

Step 1:  Adhere the window scene to the base card with
your preferred method. I used more foam adhesives but you could use glue dots
or double-sided tape if you prefer.

Step 2:
Die cut the grass border, the butterflies, flowerpots and single stem.

Step 3:  Apply the grass border. There will be a
little space at the right side of card to fill. 
That is where the flowerpots come into play.  Overlap them slightly and glue dot (or
glue).  Then affix each single stem to
middle of pot and glue dot.  You won’t see
the glue dot as you are now going to put the pots on the card where the grass
ends. 

From the Primula
Blooms you cut for the cake, choose some to make flowers to affix to the top of
the stems in the flowerpot.  Die cut the
butterflies and glue dot to the grass, the window, the brick, wherever you
choose. 

Step 4:
You are almost done!  If you choose to use a birthday greeting, stamp your birthday
greeting and cut out.  You may place it straight across the top just inside the French doors or you may wish to place it diagonally above the cat. 
Tuck them into your window scene (if you are using open windows like I
did); otherwise, simply stamp your greeting inside the card.

Step back and smile!            

*Cherry Blossom paper was used with
the Primula Bloom and placed in the center of the flowers on the
flowerpot.  They are slightly hard to see
with the French doors open.