Shine Bright and Create: Birthday card

Thursday, 12 February 2026

Birthday card

I'm sharing a birthday card that I made for a friends birthday.

Any leftover handmade flowers from my projects go into my flower box below and sometimes I will just sit and make flowers whilst watching TV. This also saves time and makes it easier for me to plan projects when I have some flowers made up.

I would be interested to hear how other crafters file their digital downloads for crafting.

With a paper kits, you can see what each one is, but with a digital download, especially in PDF format, it is just a file with a name that doesn't take up space in your craft room.

I enjoy all the benefits of crafting with digital downloads but I also want to know what is in each kit without having to open each file to search for a particular paper or topper that I may want to use, especially as I have so many files from various designers.

So, what works for me is I have a craft journal with a snapshot of each kit. At least that way I have a pretty good idea where a particular paper, topper is without searching my hard drive

Sometimes you forget some of the beautiful designs you collect along the way and just haven' t had time to create with.

It may sound like a laborious task, but I have been doing this for quite a while and each time I get a download kit, I just add it on. You can just see part of a page above.

I have also done this with just my flower dies. I cut them out when I buy them and place them on an A5 page which goes in one of my craft journals. It also encourages me to make more use of what is in my craft stash more.

This particular kit I am using today is one of those I have been meaning to use from Opulence by Design Crafts. It was a members gift for Patreon users and is the Perfect Panels Set Petal Perfection Kit which was released toward the end of 2024 and it was designed as a card sketch kit.

It's such a pretty kit and I have only used a few of these papers which would also look beautiful printed onto rice paper for other projects.

These roses were left over from a previous project and I used the digital florist - All eyes are on me rose along with these little flowers from the Steampunk Florals collections - I've added gold Stickles glitter glue to the centres of these blooms.

I thought these flowers would work well with this beautiful kit and die cut the largest panels for my topper. The rest of the panels I have saved for another project.

I used my clear glitter shimmer pen to highlight areas of the backing paper and also used my Sakura twilight gelly roll pen to edge the layers of my card. I normally do this as it leaves a fine iridescent shimmered edge on the layers and is also great for highlighting too.

I've also made a boxed envelope for my card which will be hand delivered.

Thanks for stopping by today to view my little crafty space.

Opulence by Design Crafts have a fantastic variety of digital download kits for your crafty needs as well as a mini blog for inspiration too. They also have a variety of crafting booklets for those who can not print their crafty designs too.

Have a great week, whatever you have planned for yourself.