That card is absolutely stunning Alison, they are going to love it and treasure it and yes how did you do those flowers? They do look as though they are cut and placed individually.

Elaine, that card stock, if you mean the printable one you won't buy anywhere except on the Isle of Wight, trust me, I've tried because Ellie and I were talking about getting a few of us together to see if we could buy in a small bulk and split it. I rang the company who make it in Cornwall and they only supply to one firm now, they don't even supply to industry, government anyone. If you find something from PaperMill that comes close let me know, although we had a PM shop here and I never found anything. I've been using the same cardstock, having tried every other I could find, for 16 years and sadly nothing comes close.

The die cuts I cut from a card from C&C because it doesn't print as well but it is fine for cutting etc... All the card stock is around 245-250gsm but the thing about my special card stock is it doesn't warp, so when I was making charity cards, if they hung them above a fire or radiator, the card didn't bend as a lot of card will. When you're selling people something you want it to be good quality, also people were asking for special photo's to be put on their Christmas cards so it needed to produce to photo quality, which that does and it is double sided. I use it now for printing designs and for heat embossing and for printing photo's for card fronts such as the wedding card. Die cutting I use up what ever fits the bill but I only use that card for die cutting if I am printing on to it first, so I get a clear, crisp, print image. So, I would have used that card for printing the sentiment for your birthday card and then die cut it and I used it for the heat embossing and I've used it for the resist technique as well as I did with the gold card.

Sorry I could rave about this card stock for ever I should be on commission. They used to make the best photo paper as well and when I found out they'd stopped making it, I bought the last from the I.O.W. two big A3 boxes of photo paper. When I rang Cornwall last week and asked why they stopped producing photo paper they said it was due to all the cheap Chinese imports and they now make more specialist paper that can be printed on and used underwater and in all sorts of odd places like under the sea!!! For now, they are continuing to produce my lovely card stock but I've made him promise if they ever decide to stop he must let me know so I can stock up, he must have thought me mad.