Toadstool Gardens birthday card

 At my last event I got to spend time with friends old and new. One of the lovely ladies was Karen. She was my very first team mate and has been a demo for nearly as long as I have! As we chatted and crafted Karen  shared some of her latest makes. Karen makes Christmas cards all year long so was sharing some of her gorgeous designs. One that particularly caught my attention was what she called a 5-3-1 card. She explained that the principle was to have 5 of one thing, 3 of another and finally 1 other item. So today I'm sharing my take on a 5-3-1 card using the super fun Toadstool Gardens pattern papers. 

These papers are only available to the end of February 2025 and are free, yes Free, with a qualifying purchase!  How cool is that! The beautiful colour palette of pinks, greens, lilac and orange just make me happy. The cute images just make me smile 😃 

For my 5 element on today's inspiration I chose to use 5 scrap strips of the pretty paper. Because the papers are part of a pack that have a common colour palette and design they all work beautifully together. I adhered them to a basic white panel and then adhered the panel to a white card base using 3d foam. 

For the 3 element I went with fussy cutting 3 of the cute toadstools out of another scrap of the pattern paper. I used 3d foam to adhere these to the card front. Then cut another 3 out as well to decorate the inside of the card because I just couldn't resist them 🍄😃

The final 1 element on the card is the sentiment. I chose to go with a die cut sentiment and shadow from the Wanted to Say dies.

I really enjoyed using the 5-3-1 formula for today's inspiration.  My mind is now thinking about mixing it up . Maybe 1 piece of pattern paper,  5 gems and 3 stamped sentiment / images... and off I go to make more cards 🤣 Will you give this 5-3-1 formula a go? How would you do it?