Lovely Poppies Birthday Topper (blue)Completed by Pamela Horton The whispering Platypus

Here is another delightful image, By Deloris Thiede, which I have purchased and have made into a 1920 Calendar Birthday card for a New Year greeting card.

I have incorporated 2 other purchases from this month, one of these is the backing sheet Filigree Butterflies paper, cup1011057_66, a design By Sheila Rodgers, and the other is the 2020 Calendar landscape, flowers and butterfly, cup1004642_4063, a design by Scouse Mouse.

I printed the backing sheet twice and onto both sides of the one A4 white card, retaining the white central margin folded it along the central white margin, then trimmed it down to measure 24x 12cm.

I punched 2 holes in the white margin section of the front of the folded card 11cm apart and threaded the length of royal blue ribbon securing it along the front white margin with red power tape then tying the bow.

I printed off the calendar section only, of cup1004642_4063, and printed a sheet of blue spotty paper to use as a backing sheet for the calendar and also for the main image.

I printed the sheet provided by Deloris twice onto the one A4 white card, cut out all the elements from one copy and defined all the edges of each element using a blue metallic pen.

I completed the decoupage and attached the finished topper to the 13.5x10.5cm blue spotty backing sheet, which I have also edged with the metallic pen.

I have used the second copy of the sheet provided to cut out the smaller central image and attached it to the left hand side of the insert and the spotty backed calendar to the right hand side of the insert.

This design makes into a very quick and easy greeting card which has many options for the greeting message.

Thank you Deloris, I love this design and the colours you have used, I will be able to use this many times andals be able to use many different card making formats.

Pamela Horton. The Whispering Platypus.