Handmade Birthday paper and card for my sweet Daisy

Hi everyone, and welcome to my latest design team make for Visible Image. The theme for our makes this week is "children". My sweetest granddaughter Daisy is 11 on the 11th of this month. I really don't know where those years have gone. She is still my best crafting buddy and loves to craft with me whenever she can. I decided that I would make her gift wrap, a tag and a card which all coordinated. She loves nature and one of her favourite Visible Image sets is the Bees. 

The stamp sets I used are the 

Bee Happy 

with their  co ordinating dies

The birthday balloons

 and their co ordinating dies

and one of the sentiments from the best birthday ever sentiment sets.

This is my step by step tutorial. 

I first stamped 1 of each of the balloons on kraft card using distress oxide ink. These are shown as below with their co ordinating dies. I also die cut  the number 11 using the number 1 die in the set, in black card. 

Here they are cut out. I stamped the sentiment onto kraft card and cut around it.

  I added scorched timber distress ink to all the edges to make everything pop. 

I stamped and die cut out some of the smaller bees. I always make more than I need so that some are always ready for a new project. 

I attached ribbons behind the balloons using foam tape and a bow to each front . I adhered the number 11 in place.

I stamped some stars on the tag (seen in final photo) and adhered everything in place. I added gold glitter pen and sparkle to the wings. 

I matted the tag onto yellow card and added a co ordinating ribbon. Here is the finished tag again.

For the matching gift wrap I wrapped brown paper around my glass media mat and using the 4 smaller bees on an acrylic block randomly stamped all over using VersaFine Summertime ink.

So here are the tag and gift wrap. 

This is the co ordinating card I made for Daisy.

and here her parcel all ready for her to open on her birthday. 

Can you guess what is inside?

 Shhhh...it's a new pair of Converse boots, her favourite footwear!

You can obviously use any stamp sets at all for this project. It really does elevate your gifting if you hand stamp your own gift wrap and make a matching tag (and even card as I did).

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Back soon,

Bye for now,

Jane x