This birthday card is a great card for any man in your life. It is made with the Waterside Retreat designer series paper and Relaxing Waterside stamps and dies from Stampin’ Up. The adorable anchor trinkets that go with this set add a great addition.
To create this card, you just need a few things:
- Pool Party card stock (Stampin’ Up)
- White card stock
- Waterside Retreat designer series paper (2026 Annual Catalog Stampin’ Up)
- Relaxing Waterside stamp set and dies (2026 Annual Catalog Stampin’ Up)
- Pool Party ink (Stampin’ Up)
- Crumb Cake ink (Stampin’ Up)
- Loose Anchor Trinkets (2026 Annual Catalog Stampin’ Up)
- Paper trimmer
- Adhesive of choice
- Pop dots
From a piece of Pool Party card stock cut a card base to 5 ½” x 8 ½” and fold in half. Take a piece of white card stock and cut a piece for the inside of your card to 4” x 5 ¼” and adhere to the inside of your card. Then take your Waterside Retreat designer series paper and find the bool party striped piece and cut a piece to 4” x 5 ¼” for the front of your card. Adhere this piece to the front of your card.
Also in the Waterside Retreat designer series paper pack find the piece with the cutout, the buoys and the life jackets and paddles. From the cutouts piece cut out the Pool Party colored shell piece. Then on the buoys page cut out two buoys in colors of your choice to patch your papers. And from the life jacket and paddles page cut out a life jacket that matches your paper and then cut out one of the double paddles.
Adhere the shell cut out piece to the front center of your card. Adhere the paddles to the right side of the shell and then the life jacket over the paddles raised with pop dots. On the right side adhere to the buoys together with raised up with pop dots. Then take one of the anchor trinkets and adhere in the upper left corner over the buoys.
Take a scrap piece of white card stock and stamp the “today is your day” greeting in pool party ink, then trim down and cut the end to form a flag. Then stamp the seagull in Crumb Cake ink and cut out with the die. Adhere to flag label to the top of your shell cut out and then adhere the seagull on the left end.
For the inside of your card stamp the “have a great birthday” greeting in Pool Party ink in the upper center. Then with the Crumb Cake ink stamp the flying seagull in the upper right corner and the larger grass in the lower left corner.
What a great birthday card for any guy in your life.
If you are interested in seeing other card ideas, please visit my blog at www.daisychainfun.com or follow my website.
All cards are handmade and photos taken by DaisyChainFun.
