Birthdays are Better in Plaid

I just can't stop playing with the plaids from the Country Club Designer Series Paper! Today, I paired them with the Broadway Birthday stamp set and the Broadway Lights dies. I pulled the colors from the paper to use for the cardstock and ink: Crushed Curry, Poppy Parade, Garden Green, and Basic Black. The colors and the plaids make great gender-neutral birthday cards. 
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Hooray in Living Color!
Ink: Crushed Curry, Night of Navy, Garden Green, Poppy Parade
Cardstock: 

• Crushed Curry: 8 1/2" x 5 1/2", folded in half cut bottom edge on front with dies, 1 piece - attach Poppy Parade die cut and trim around edges leaving a small border, plus 1/4" strip
• Poppy Parade: 5 1/2" x 3 3/16", scrap cut with dies, 5 1/2" x 1 1/2" strip adhered to the bottom of the interior of the card. 
• Whisper White: Scraps cut with dies

Country Club DSP: 5 1/2" x 3"

​Tips:

• Stamp the "It's Your Birthday" with Garden Green ink and attach it using Stampin' Dimensionals
• Attach the strip of Poppy Parade to the inside bottom edge of the card. (Not the underside of the card front.) This way you can see through to the red. 

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Wish Card
Inks​: Garden Green, Crushed Curry, Sahara Sand
Cardstock:

• Garden Green: 8 1/2" x 5 1/2" folded in half
• Sahara Sand: 5 1/2" x 1 1/2", scraps
• Whisper White: Scraps
• Poppy Parade: cut with Wish die

Country Club DSP: Scraps cut with Layering Circles dies (diameters: 2 15/16" & 1 7/8")

Tips:

• ​Use the die that is a strip of diamonds from the Broadway Lights dies to cut diamond shapes from a scrap of Sahara Sand. Use a Wink of Stella Glitter Brush to color over them and make them sparkle.
• Stamp the diamonds with Garden Green. You may want to carefully cut apart the stamp with the two diamonds. You will still be able to put them "back together" on a clear block to stamp them as they were originally, but you can also stamp them separately. 
• Color the "Wish" die with a Wink of Stella Glitter Brush to make it sparkle.
• Swipe your Sahara Sand ink pad around the edges of the card front, the circles, and the strip of Sahara Sand cardstock to make it look distressed.

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Black & White Hooray!
Ink: Versamark, Smoky Slate, Tuxedo Black Memento
Cardstock: 

• Basic Black: 8 1/2" x 5 1/2" folded in half, 5 1/4" x 4", 4" x 2 1/2", & scraps
• Whisper White: 4" x 2 5/16"

Country Club DSP: 4" x 3 1/4"
Tips:

• Emboss the 5 1/4" x 4" piece of Basic Black cardstock with the retired Polka Dot embossing folder.
• Heat emboss (directions on heat embossing) the Hooray using Versamark ink, Shimmer White Embossing Powder, and a Heat Tool on a scrap of Basic Black cardstock. Trim carefully with Paper Snips leaving a small black edge. 
• Adhere Rhinestone Basic Jewels above and below the greeting.