Priscilla's Papercrafts: Scrappy Birthday

Today is my "baby's" birthday.

Last week I was playing with the Scrappy Strip technique and made a background that I loved. So it became his card:

Now truth be told, I made the main layer and then got a little stuck on what to do next. So what do you do when you get stuck?

I turned to Pinterest! And there I saw a card by Connie Collins (who happens to be a Stampin' UP Artisan) and it got me going in the right direction. She had a circle element with the Cajun Craze label, and then I took it from there.

The "Happy" is from a retired set of Christmas dies that I NEVER used! Can you believe it? But somehow it was just the right moment to pull it out and cut it, using a piece of the In Good Taste patterned paper (which I had also used for the background). The leaves were cut with the Nature's Roots dies (and you can emboss them too!).

And that background:

I cut strips of many of the In Good Taste papers on a diagonal, then mounted them to a piece of Early Espresso cardstock. Once completed I cut to size using the Stitched Rectangle dies.