Hei og hopp! Dagens kort er litt magisk. Ikke bare fordi stempelsettet jeg har brukt tilfeldigvis heter Magical Dragons, men fordi jeg har speilvendt det ene stempelet. Disse dragene er kjempeskjønne, men jeg ville at dragen som flyr skulle vende motsatt vei av det den egentlig gjør på stempelet, så derfor måtte jeg jukse litt. Fremgangsmåten finner du i juninummeret av Ett trykk. 
En stykk speilvendt drage. Det var noe galt med selve stempelet, så dragen min er enøyd og mangler tuppen av det ene øret, men dette var mer for å vise at det faktisk går an.
Over til selve kortet mitt. Her stemplet jeg med lysere blekk enn på eksempelet mitt, jeg ville nemlig fargelegge med no lines-teknikk med Copic-tusjene mine. Den lille dragen var en fryd å fargelegge, jeg slet mer med den store. Grunnen er såpass enkel at jeg var tom for de rosafargene jeg helst ville bruke, så hun fikk en annen farge enn planlagt. Nå har jeg fått tak i refiller til de riktige rosafargene, så neste gang jeg vil bruke dem går det mye bedre.
Jeg stanset ut panelet med dragene mine med en rektangeldie (Stitched Rectangles 1) fra My Favorite Things med juksesøm og limte panelet mitt rett på kortbasen av Raspberry Fizz kartong fra Papertrey Ink. Jeg stemplet en tekst fra et stempelsett fra Altenew med Picked Raspberry Distress Oxide og embosset med klart embossingpulver fra Ranger. Til slutt limte jeg på noen krystaller fra Papirdesign.
I colored her up in reds with a really dark night sky background and lots of snow flurrying through the air. I diecut her and put her on a scalloped circle. Added a few diecut snowflakes and a charm shaped like mittens for a little bit of embellishment.
I stamped a sentiment (No peeking! – not to be opened until Christmas Eve!) on a 1″ circle and glued a pebble on top, just for that tiny bit of dimension.
The back of the tag is very simple. More diecut snowflakes, a stitched snowflake circle and a To/From stamp from Norsk Stempelblad AS, stamped using Papertrey Ink Scarlet Jewel ink. I added tiny Kort & Godt pearls to the center of each of the snowflakes.
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I diecut the banners, as well as the main panel, using dies from My Favorite Things. MFT dies are my favorite, they’re so versatile. I glued part of a doily underneath my banners and stamped a Norsk Stempelblad AS sentiment on the biggest one (It says “BIRTHDAY – a special day that brings together people you love” in Norwegian).
I used a small star punch for my yellow stars, and added a few veneer ones from Studio Calico to put something on the front that wasn’t made from paper. I added a couple of enamel dots to finish it off, simply because the pink color matched everything else perfectly.
I put a tiny cluster on the inside. Another banner diecut using an MFT die, another veneer star and also a polaroid frame, diecut with another MFT die – told you they’re my favorite. A couple of punched little pink hearts and another Norsk Stempelblad AS sentiment (Happiness is being one year older), and my card was done.
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I wanted to embellish the inside, too, but make it very simple. I took the diecut frame left from the banner on the front and glued it to my white cardstock before stamping a sentiment in red. I diecut a small yellow patterned paper circle for an extra bit of detail, and that’s it.
Jeg fargela 
I tillegg til arkene har jeg brukt en blanding av blomster fra Wild Orchid Crafts og Papirdesign. Jeg har også stukket inn noen grønne blader her og der.
På innsiden har jeg brukt litt andre ark. Det rosa er et gammelt et fra den gangen arkene fra Maja Design var ensidige og hadde litt skinn Det gule er fra Coffee in the Arbour-kolleksjonen og det grønne er et veldig tynt ensidig ark av ukjent produsent. Teksten fra B03-platen til Norsk Stempelblad AS er stemplet med Memento Bamboo Leaves, og spruten rundt er stemplet med Splash-stempelet til Inkido med Distress Ink Mustard Seed. Scallopsirkelen er laget med en die fra Papirdesign.
Baksiden har nok et NSB-stempel, og også her har jeg pyntet veldig enkelt med blomster og blader.
I colored her with my Copics and cut my panel down. I wanted to use some scraps of Maja Design patterned paper, so I glued the plaid one and a tiny sliver of red right next to it before putting my panel on foam tape and gluing it to the front of my card.
I stamped and heat embossed a birthday sentiment on a 1″ circle I made from the patterned paper, and glued it to my panel with a pebble on top.
The pebble adds a little bit of shine to an otherwise simple card. So do the enamel dots I put on the left.
I printed her in 10 per cent opacity from Photoshop to color her in no lines, I haven’t done that in a while, and decided that she was perfect for it.
I printed a Vivian Greene quote next to her and colored her up with Copics. The majority of the colors I already had lying on my desk from another image I colored the previous day, so I made things easy for myself.
I cut down 1/8″ in both directions and glued her straight onto a cardbase made from Papertrey Ink Melon Berry cardstock. I added Pretty Pink Posh sequins in various sizes around my sentiment, and that’s the finished card – pretty simple, keeping most of the focus on that no line coloring.
I colored her up with my Copics in mainly RVs ang BGs. I diecut her with a stitched rectangle die from the Stitched Rectangles STAX Set 2 from My Favorite Things – try saying that ten times fast. I put her on lots of foam tape to a panel of Ocean Tides cardstock from Papertrey Ink, diecut with another stitched rectangle die from MFT, this time from Set 1. I added that to a Plum Pudding cardbase.
I tend to make my cards simple with clusters of embellishments. This card is no exception. I dug through my patterned paper scraps and found some papers that matched my cardstock pretty well. The light teal is from My Mind’s Eye, the dark teal is from Pion Design, and the purple is from Papirdesign.
I also added a doily. Well, half a doily, another signature of mine. I diecut my teal banners with a couple of My Favorite Things dies, and glued a little vine from Snip Art on top. This chipboard piece is very delicate, so I used spray adhesive on the back of it to avoid having to deal with liquid glue oosing out the sides. I added my diecut heart with some liquid glue, put a layer of Wink of Stella on top, and then Glossy Accents on top of that.
Here you can see the Glossy Accents on the heart heaps better. I also added Wink of Stella and Glossy Accents on the heart on her shirt.
I found some scraps of mostly green patterned paper from Maja Design. I had no idea that the club he plays at is named Green Joy, so that was pure luck. I added his age on a flag, thought it was fitting. Not that there’s 50 holes on a course (that much I know), but I’m guessing he gets it anyway.
I colored up my golfer to fit my papers and added a bit of green below his feet and the ball. I love his tongue sticking out, he’s SO focused on making that put!
I added a little cluster of banners in the lower left corner, with a sentiment on one of them. It says “a man at his best age” in Norwegian. I stamped it in Papertrey Ink Dark Chocolate ink and added a few veneer stars from Studio Calico as accents.
The inside basically has the same design. I made a pocket for some cash on the left side, with a diecut sentiment and some more stars.
The back is also pretty simple, the first line of a Norwegian birthday song stamped in the same dark brown color that I used for the sentiment on the front of the card. I scattered a few stars here, as well.
Jeg har stemplet alle smileyene fra Smileys-platen på Stamper’s Select White kartong fra Papertrey Ink med Soft Stone blekk, også fra PTI. Jeg har fargelagt utvalgte smileys med Copictusjene mine og så stemplet over disse med Extreme Black blekk fra My Favorite Things.
At jeg endte opp med å fargelegge to av smileyen med store øyne var helt tilfeldig, det var plasseringen av smileyene som bestemte hvilke som ble fargelagt, ikke hvilke smileyer det var snakk om. Egentlig var planen en bredere og lengre tekststripe som gikk helt bort til den nederste rosa, men den lange, brede tekststripen funket ikke. Sånn sett burde jeg sikkert ha fargelagt den med briller som er til høyre for den nederste rosa når jeg endret planen min, men da måtte jeg ha stemplet hele bakgrunnen på nytt, og det var nok presisjonsarbeid den første gangen, så jeg lot det være som det var.
De første gangene jeg lagde CAS-kort gjorde jeg alltid noe på innsiden også, for det var det jeg var vant til fra mine lag-på-lag-kort, men etter kort tid gikk jeg bort fra det. Enkelt skal liksom være enkelt, det trenger ofte ikke noe mer enn forsiden, har jeg tenkt. 
Teksten embosset jeg på den samme turkise kartongen som jeg brukte til basen (Papertrey Ink Hawaiian Shores), stanset den ut til et banner og proppet den opp på noen lave 3D-puter. For å forankre tekststripen litt brukte jeg noen dotter i farger som matchet den ensomme, oransje smileyen øverst på kortet, for å ta igjen fargen litt. Og det er all pynten. Easy peasy. Håper jeg kanskje kan inspirere deg til å se på stemplene du har og finne nye bruksmuligheter til dem.
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