Hello, friends!  I’m here with a pair of birthday cards to share with you for The Greetery today. It’s recently come to my attention that I need to be beefing up my card stash. The drawer is looking a little less full than I’d like and really, I’m needing to add cards for quite a few different occasions. Since birthday cards are some of what I use the most, I thought I’d get a jump on restocking with a pair of vintage-inspired birthday greetings. Let me tell you all about them!

To start things off, I decided to use a couple of the new Capsule Valentine Gallery Prints. I love that these beautiful pre-printed images are quick and easy to cut out and layer up.

PRO TIP: Just because they’re in a set called “Capsule Valentine Gallery Prints” doesn’t mean they can only be used to make Valentines! There are many images in this set that can be used for all sorts of different occasions!

I die cut the floral image and then die cut the capsule layers to go on top, below and around it. These pieces are all so easy to layer together! I used the Capsule Basics dies for the floral image and scalloped layer, Capsule Filigree Borders for the gold sparkly layer, and Capsule Fixed Borders Small for the teal frame layer.

PRO TIP: I used the Capsule Collection Valentine Borders stamps, to stamp that filigree layer on the teal frame. Once again, this doesn’t have to ONLY be for Valentine cards! I left off the hearts and just used the pretty, decorative border! I love the vintage touch it adds!

On this card, rather than stamp the border detail, I used the negative die cut from the filigree border on the first card. I just love those filigree dies…..total two-uses-out-of-one die!

That gold glitter looks so elegant and antique up against the greens! ahhh!

PRO TIP: For the sentiments, I stamped a single sentiment from the Tear Strip Tags: Birthday set. The four sentiments in that set are all on the same stamp. But that doesn’t mean you can’t choose just one and use it on a project! Again, I love products that have multiple ways to use them! To mask off the sentiment I wanted, I used a couple of those small, skinny sticky notes to cover the sentiments on either side of the one I wanted to use. Made it super easy to ink it up, pull off the stickies and stamp, then cover them up to ink it up again to stamp for the next card.

I stamped the sentiments on one of the Shortbread Shapes: Rectangle Labels dies.

For one last vintage touch, I ran a piece of rustic cream card stock though the die cutting machine with the Shortbread Shapes: Scalloped Hearts 3D Embossing Folder. I LOVE that you just see a bit of the design peeking out around the focal point. It reminds me of those old white chenille bedspreads…..do you know the ones I mean? They had all that pretty, bumpy texture….just like this card stock panel. It just adds another layer of interest. It almost has a sort of quilted feel.

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I so enjoyed creating these antique-inspired cards and I hope they gave you some inspiration, as well! I need to get busy filling my card stash drawer up some more, but these are a good little jumping off point! How about you? What’s the state of your card stash? If you need to do a little beefing up as well, why not pull out some of those Valentine things and use them on some non-Valentine cards? And maybe make them “vintage” while you’re at it!

If you do, we’d love to see! Tag me @dawnsing and tag @the_greetery!

Have a great day!

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