Birthday Berries

There are a LOT of birthdays at our church in July and August, so I’m taking a multi-batch approach for the card making this summer. Last month I created this card and the coordinator had enough to get started sending cards for the beginning of July. This batch of 25 cards will cover most of July, but not all. When I handed off the cards to the coordinator yesterday I told her that I would do another big batch soon so she had enough to start in August, and then I’ll do one or more batches to finish up August and have enough to start in September.

Card making is a great activity when it is so stinkin’ hot outside. We had several days last week where it was over 90° and I kept busy and productive by working on these cards. And I got to be creative, too!

I like to use patterned papers in my card ministry creations. This time I used papers that are currently available – I didn’t dig into my stash. Stampin’ Up!™ has gorgeous papers with lots of different designs, and these are great examples. The fruit paper is from the Homemade Sweetness pack that is an Online Exclusive and the striped paper is from the Paper Medley pack which is designed to partner with other papers. I really like how these two papers come together on the finished card! The card itself is quite basic, so the papers are the star of the show. Speaking of star… the three stars on the card are from a bag of confetti stars that I purchased from Amazon over a year ago. I have so many I could embellish cards over three lifetimes! They are a great option that doesn’t add any lumpiness or weight, so they are perfect for the card ministry cards.

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