Cat Card – Welcome

This cute birthday card with a cat wishing happy birthday as it floats in the sky with balloons is great for anyone.

To create this card, you just need a few things:

Basic Gray card stock (Stampin’ Up)
Pretty in Pink card stock (Stampin’ Up)
White card stock
Bloom Impressions designer series paper (Stampin’ Up)
Cat with Balloon dies and the Happy Birthday label dies (Spellbinders Advent Calendar 2025)
Basic Gray ink (Stampin’ Up)
White or pink cord
Paper trimmer
Adhesive of choice
Pop dots

With the white card stock, cut a card base measuring 5 ½” x 8 ½” and fold in half to form your card of 4 ¼” x 5 ½”. Then also cut a 2 7/8” x 4 1/8”. From the Bloom Impressions designer series paper pack find the piece that has the blue on the back that looks like clouds. Cut a piece to 4 1/8” x 5 3/8” and another to 3 ¾” x 5” and a third to 3 1/8” x 4 ½”. Then cut a piece of the Basic Gray to 3 7/8” x 5 1/8” and another to 3 3/8” x 4 5/8”.

With your white card base and the blue sky paper measuring 4 1/8” x 5 3/8” and adhere the blue sky piece to the front of your card base. Then adhere the Basic Gray piece cut to 3 7/8” x 5 1/8” to the blue sky piece. Now adhere the blue sky piece measuring 3 ¾” x 5” to that.

Now with the Pretty in Pink card stock cut four balloons, waist string and the happy birthday label. With a spare piece of Basic Gray and cut out the cat die. Adhere the waist string to the cat’s waist. Adhere string to each of the four balloons (the die cut strings were not long enough for the center balloon. Adhere the three balloons to the front of your card, adhering two to the card and the third with pop dots to make it stand out. Adhere your strings down and then adhere the cat over them with pop dots, making sure to leave enough room for the banner. Adhere the happy birthday banner toward the bottom.

Now take the last three piece you cut for the inside and adhere the white to the blue and then the blue to the gray. Adhere this to the inside of your card. Take the last balloon and add string to it and then adhere that to the upper left corner of your layers.

Take your Basic Gray ink and a greeting stamp and stamp a bit to the right of center in the upper part of your layers.

There is your floating cat happy birthday card, great for any cat lovers you have.

If you are interested in seeing other card ideas, please visit my blog at www.daisychainfun.com. Also, if you would like to purchase any Stampin’ Up products, please visit my website at https://www.stampinup.com/?demoid=2269501.

All cards are handmade and photos taken by DaisyChainFun.

Love Cats Circle Flap Card

Anyone who knows me knows I love cats, and I have been trying to design this card in my head for a while as I wanted to do a layered card but that let you see all the cats even when the card was closed. I finally sat down and played with it yesterday and this was the result, and I was really happy with it.

To create this card, you just need a few things:

White card stock
Copper Clay Stripe and Heart designer series paper (Stampin’ Up 2023-24 In Color)
Love Cats stamp set (Retired Stampin’ Up)
Two circle dies
Copper Clay ink (Retired Stampin’ Up)
Basic Black Ink (Stampin’ Up)
Copper Clay Stampin’ Blends or Stampin’ Marker (Retired Stampin’ Up)
Scoring board or paper trimmer scoring blade
Paper trimmer
Adhesive of choice
Pop dots

With your Copper Clay card stock cut a card base to 5 ½” x 8 ¼” and score at 1 ¾”, 2 ¾”, 4 ¼” and 5 ¼”. With your white card stock cut three pieces to 2 5/8” x 5 1/8”. With the striped designer series paper cut a piece to 2 ¾” x 3”. With the heart copper clay designer series paper cut two to 2 ¾” x 5 3/8”.

Take your three pieces of white card stock you cut, the Love Cats stamps and the Basic Black ink. Stamp the hanging cat on one piece at the top. With the cat flipped, stamp that in the lower right corner of the second piece. On the third piece stamp the laying cat about 2 ¼” (top of back) down. With the laying cat piece take scissors and cut the bottom out below the ledge so the paws and tail hanging off the ledge are cut out.

Take the hanging cat layer and adhere it to one of the heart pieces of paper. With the larger circle die cut out a partial circle at the bottom to show the flipped cat. Adhere this to the middle section of your card base. For the top layer, alight the striped piece where it would go on the top layer of your card base and flip upside down and with a pencil draw on the back side of the striped paper where the circle needs to be and then use that to line the circle die up and cut that circle out. Now adhere the white upper portion with the laying cat to the top of that making sure it measures a height of 5 3/8”. Lay your larger circle die upside down over the hanging cat, align your top layer where it would adhere on the top level and find where to cut the upper partial circle out of the top layer and cut out.

Now for the lower layer with the flipped cat, take both circle dies and align as above in the upper left corner, making sure you are leaving enough room for the inside circle to stamp the “I love hanging out with you” greeting, and cut out both circles together. Adhere the lower part with the cat onto your last heart designer series paper piece. Then align your upper corner and adhere that. With the “I love hanging out with you” greeting and your Copper Clay ink, stamp your greeting. Adhere this to the back or your card base. With the Copper Clay marker color in the open hearts on each of your stamped images.

You now have the Love Cats flap card to give so someone you love spending time with. I am absolutely in love with this card and so happy with how it turned out after spending so much time trying to figure it out in my head.

All cards are handmade and photos taken by DaisyChainFun.

Cat Balloon Birthday Card

Love Cats Circle Flap Card