I haven’t tried triple step stamping in a long time and I didn’t remember how much strength it required, drat!

I started with an A2 size card base that is 8 1/2″ tall by 11″ x 5 1/2″ wide, scored on the 8 1/2″ length at 4 1/4″.

The white card pieces are:

4 x 5 1/4″ that I glued to the outside of the card base

3 1/4″ x 3″ I put a small amount of tear tape under this (you’ll need to rip this piece back off so I’d put as little tear tape as possible so you can easily remove it) and adhered it to the bottom white layer about 1/2″ from the left edge and tried to center it between the top and bottom of the card (I eyeballed this).

I stamped the happy birthday sentiment on this layer that’s 3 x 1 3/4″ and then put a small piece of tear tape under it (again, remember you need to remove it before you’re finished, so put a very small piece of tear tape on this layer) and adhered it to the middle white layer near the right side of the bottom white card stock.

Happy Birthday sentiment came from a double set of sentiment stamps I bought on Amazon…here’s the link: http://tinyurl.com/2s3zjrsn As you know, I’m not affiliated with Amazon and make no monies from the links I provide you and only provide them so it’s easy for you to find them.

Black layers are 3 1/2″ x 3 1/4″ and 3 1/4 x 2″.. SORRY I gave the wrong info in the video…

The stamp set I used for the floral images is retired from Stampin’ Up and is called Uniquely Artistic. Here are some sets available on ebay: http://tinyurl.com/58cf3wuw

I used Soft Suede Ink from Stampin’ Up and the base of my card is also Soft Suede.

I used an acrylic block and the long floral image that doesn’t have a lot of ridges in it to do my first stamping. I stamped around the entire front of the card without a lot of success and did this by stamping off, which means I ink the stamp then stamp it on scrap paper and then stamp it on the card where I wanted it. You do this when you want the next image I’m stamping to be darker as I won’t stamp off this layer…and this is the image that has the ridges on it. So you’ll stamp over all of the first images with the ridged stamp layer after I took a paint brush and filled in some of the blank spots I had when I stamped the first layer. Then pull off the two top white layers and add tear tape to the back of them and layer the black paper behind them and then put them back where you can see they belong from the shadows of where nothing is inked. I added foam tape to the back of the Happy Birthday layer.

I had an issue with the top section of this card, so added some textured white ribbon across the top of the card.

I thought about adding some diamonds but decided against them, but I did use them on my single layer card and thought they looked good.

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