Mountain Air birthday card

This beautiful masculine birthday card is made using the Mountain Air stamp set out of 2020 occasions catalog. I have to say this is my favorite stamp set in this catalog. It has beautiful images and is one of Stampin' UP!s new reversible stamp sets. There is also a matching die set available and if you bundle you will save 10% but for this card I only used the stamp set. 

For this card I cut the following pieces:

Garden green base - 8-1/2 x 5-1/2

Crumb cake- (1)- 4" x 51/4" (front layer),  ( 1)- 1" x 4" 

Very vanilla - (1) 5-1/4" x 4" for inside of card, (1) 3-3/4" x 5" for layer on front, (1) 4-1/4" x 3" for stamping on for the front, (1) 1" x  3-1/2" for greeting. 

Night of Navy - 4-1/2" x 3-1/4" for 

Country Club Designer Series Paper (1)- 2" x 5" and (1) 1" x 3-1/2" for banner

For this card I started with a garden green card base. I then layered a piece of crumb cake 5-1/4" x 4". On top of that I used a 5" x 3-3/4" piece of very vanilla. I then place a piece of the Country Club DSP 2" x 5" across the center. 

Now to the top section. You start by stamping your mountains in crumb cake onto a piece of very vanilla 4-1/4" x 3". At the same time as stamping my card front I also stamped my mountains onto the front of my very vanilla envelope.

                                     
The next step is the trees which I stamped in Garden green and also stamped on the bottom of a 5-1/4" x 4" piece of very vanilla to use on the inside of my card.

The next step is the reverse side of the trees which is the smooth side and it is stamped upside down under the trees to give it the effect of water. I used night of navy and stamped off first so the blue was not too dark. This gave it a very nice blue water look. 

The last stamping we need to do is the birds and the greeting. I stamped both of these in Early expresson. The greeting is on a very vanilla piece 1" x  3".  I used the happy birthday stamp from the here's a card stamp set. I use this stamp set a lot. I like that it has your greeting for the front of your card and also an inside sentiment too. 

To assemble the card I layered the front piece onto a piece of night of navy measuring 

 4-1/2" x 3-1/4". and then I used the banner punch to punch both my greeting and my 1" x 3-1/2" piece of  the blue plaid  paper from the country club dsp. I added some twine to my greeting and then used dimensionals to attach my greeting to the dsp and  then layered them onto a piece of crumb cake measuring 1" x 4" and attached to the front piece and then attached to the front of the card. I completed my card by adding a gold faceted gem to the crumb cake piece. 

Hope you enjoyed this card!