March Card Roundup

 This month, we have several family birthdays!  I made 3 birthday cards this month that were a lot of fun, and very different!  Again, I am continuing my goal of not spending any money on new card supplies this year, so everything here was made with supplies that I have had since 2020 or earlier.  

I love the colors on this card!  The sentiment and the bottom strip were made last year using my Ken Oliver watercolor powders, pearlescent powder, and watercolor paper.  I die cut a bunch of stuff out of those papers when I made them and tucked it into a basket for future use.  I love grabbing those pieces and making cards based around them!  I matched it with this beautiful purple glitter paper from DCWV and a blue cardstock from Stampin Up.  I added black jewels and 33 in thickers to finish off the card.  

Isn't this die cut background so pretty?  And it gives you a bunch of really pretty smaller hearts to use as embellishments!  I colored in the biggest hearts with a Wink of Stella pen, and used a Lawn Fawn birthday sentiment to emboss the sentiment on a tag I had.  The smaller sentiment came from a set of sentiment strips I bought from Simon Says Stamp last year.  Slimline cards are a fun, different shape that mails very well and adds interest to the card.  

Finally, this card is a clean and simple design that's perfect for anyone!  This stamp from Waffle Flower is big and bold and one of my favorites.  This is an old patterned paper I found in my stash, and I added washi tape and buttons as clean embellishments.  The kraft on black looks so nice in my opinion.  

These are three different birthday designs that you could easily do with your own stamps or supplies!  The first one could be done with inks or watercolors of any kind, and could be made with any type of die cut sentiment.  The second card showcases a fun die cut, but could also be done with patterned paper as well if that's what you have!  The third one highlights a big and bold sentiment stamp with clean, simple details.  I hope that these cards give you some inspiration to pick up your own papercrafting supplies and send something!