KCS Designs by Kim Design Team Project - Birthday and Notecard 3D Cards

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Hey everyone.  Today is my first Design Team Project for KCS Designs by Kim.  The owner, Kim, has a store on Etsy that sells digital junk journal papers, mixed media papers, clip art, brushes, and other digital items that are perfect for cardmaking, album making, junk journals, or any other papercraft idea.

I hardly ever make traditional junk journals, but I love to use digital junk journal papers and collections in my mini albums, photo folios, and cards.  Today I am sharing some cards I made using papers from the Mixed Media Flowers kit - a set of 12 beautiful journal pages of mixed media flower designs.    

I've also have a video showing how I made 2 other cards using the same collection, and you can watch it below or on my YouTube Channel - World of Michael Trent.  

KCS Designs by Kim is also having a Summer Sale - 45% off the entire store - through July 31, 2025.

Card 1

  • I found an image I wanted to use.  Then I printed two of them on a sheet of white cardstock at 52%.  Printing at 52% will print your images just shy of 4.5" x 5.75", which will allow the whole image to fit nicely on the front of an A2 card.   
  • I made a top-folding A2 card using white cardstock.
  • Then I used the 4.25" x 5.5" stitched rectangle die from the Stitched Rectangle Set 1 Dies set from Pink & Main to cut one of the images, which I adhered to the front of the card.  
  • Then I fussy cut and distressed the edges of 3 of the flowers from the 2nd image, added some foam tape to the back of each of them, and adhered them to the card front..    


  • To finish off the card, I went through my stash of sentiments, adhered one to the card front that says "just wanted to say..." and then I added a "Happy Birthday" sentiment to the inside of the card.  


Card 2

  • Using another page from the Mixed Media Flowers digital kit, I printed two of them at 52%, on a sheet of white cardstock.
  • Then I die-cut one of them using the 3.75" x 5" stitched rectangle die from the Stitched Rectangle Set 1 Dies set by Pink & Main, and fussy-cut the flower and the leaves in the second image.  

  • I made a top-folding A2 card using Kraft cardstock, and distressed the edges of the card and the die-cut image with Coffee Archival Ink.  I layered the die-cut image on a piece of purple cardstock, adhered a piece of fun foam to the back, and adhered it to the card front.  
  • I distressed the edges of the fussy-cut flower and leaves with Coffee Archival Ink, added foam tape to the backs, and adhered them to the card front.

  • To finish off the card, I added a sentiment to the front.  Then I die-cut a piece of white cardstock using a 4" x 5.25" stitched rectangle die and adhered that to the inside for a message.   And I adhered some tiny white pearls to the center of the flower. 

Here are more card ideas using the same collection and sentiments from Tim Holtz. 





Thanks so much for stopping by the blog today.  I hope you enjoyed these card ideas.  Until next time...

Hugs from Brasil.

~Michael

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