Tropical Birthday Card with Pink Paislee Confetti Wishes!

Greetings of this new week - the first week of Summer! I always consider the official kick off to Summer as the week after Memorial Day! It was 96 degrees here yesterday so I'd say that qualifies us for Summer status! The heat came fast! It was a beautiful weekend in Northern California. On Friday we went and spent the day at the ocean. On the way home we stopped at Lands End and we saw TONS of whales swimming right up near the Golden Gate Bridge!! WOW - what a sight! SO beautiful and magical. It was a great day. Sunday we went out to breakfast and did a little small town local shopping. The rest of the time was yard work and crafting. Did you have a nice weekend? Are you ready for Summer now? This coming (next) weekend my husband and I will celebrate 25 years together (WOW).... We always honor the anniversary of our first date which was 6-4-93. Looking forward to a bit of a celebration with the big guy next week. It's our silver jubilee year. LOL!!

I have a fresh and tropical birthday card for you today. NO stamping! Just pretty paper, die cuts and stickers all combined together with some paper sewing! I am head over heels crazy for this new paper collection from Pink Paislee. It's called Confetti Wishes - and I bought everything! I always love pink and green together and always also love anything tropical with florals and leaves. I was really inspired by the collection. This will be a great June birthday card!

The card is A2 size and I started with a white card base. I used two of the patterned papers from the 6x6 pad and sewed them together with a zig zag stitch on my new sewing machine! I attached those two sewn together layers directly onto the card base with no border. Then I had fun attaching stickers and die cuts....and gems and sequins. In this side view you can see some of the pieces are raised up with foam tape.

Here's a close up of the sewing. I used white thread and a standard needle. I always switch to a new needle if I'm going to sew fabric. I save the dull ones for paper. Also, if I'm going to sew thick heavy cardstock, I will put in a denim needle! It's really very easy to sew paper!! It doesn't slide around like fabric. I love this look.

This is my new sewing machine! Isn't she pretttttyyyyy? It's a Janome and I bought it from QVC. They also have it on Amazon and HSN. Guess what? It comes in dark pink and yellow tooooo! This color is called Arctic Crystal. YAY!!

To start my card layout I chose the big Monsteral leaves and the postage stamps first. They I layered around those elements. You can see that I added a big vellum circle underneath everything for one more piece of visual interest and softness. The stickers have gold accents so I used gold sequins on my card for some extra shine.

This collection is awesome for cards! But also would make gorgeous scrapbook pages or party decorations. I'm going to try and use it and not hoard it. LOLZ.

I bought a Monstera plant for my studio several weeks ago and it is SO happy in here! All the new leaves are fresh and such bright green! It truly makes me happy to look at it all day. It's growing so fast though, it might take over in here!!