Hei og hopp!
Jeg er på en aldri så liten regnbuekick om dagen, så jeg har et fargerikt, men likevel enkelt bursdagskort å vise frem i dag.
Jeg startet med et panel Bristol Smooth som var litt større (4 1/2 x 6″) enn det jeg hadde planer om å putte på kortet mitt til slutt. Jeg stemplet de tre blomstene fra Brushtekstplaten til Huldra designstudio med VersaMark og embosset dem med embossingpulver fra Ranger. Så svertet jeg distress oxide over i fargene Picked Raspberry, Fossilized Amber, Twisted Citron, Cracked Pistachio, Peacock Feathers og Salty Ocean.
Da jeg var ferdig med svertingen brukte jeg et tørk fra en tørkerull til å tørke over det overflødige blekket som hadde lagt seg oppå embossingen. Jeg kuttet ned panelet mitt til 4 x 5 1/2″, og limte det på en toppbrettet A2 kortbase laget av Stamper’s Select White kartong fra Papertrey Ink.
Jeg ville ikke dekke til for mye av blomstene, men noe mer måtte jeg likevel ha på kortet. Jeg stanset ut en Gratulerer-die fra Papirdesign seks ganger i hvit kartong og limte dem oppå hverandre. Jeg stemplet også teksten “med dagen” fra Fleksitekstplaten til Huldra designstudio på True Black kartong fra Papertrey Ink og embosset med det samme hvite embossingpulveret som jeg brukte på bakgrunnen. Jeg klippet en vinkel i den ene enden av tekststripen min og limte den på kortet med 3D-teip. Til slutt limte jeg på dotter i koordinerende farger fra Papirdesign og My Mind’s Eye litt her og der oppover på kortet.
I’ll admit, I struggled putting this one together. I had a stray pink Copic streak on the left side of the image, and no matter how times I used my blender on it, it was just too stubborn to go away. I decided to cut it off, I wasn’t about to redo the entire image. I sort of had a plan, but that didn’t really work, so I wound up diecutting a scrap piece of 7 Dots Studio patterned paper to go behind my image.
I used the same patterned paper for my sentiment strip, which I stamped with a Norsk Stempelblad AS stamp and then diecut using one of the Fishtail Flag Frames dies from My Favorite Things. The pink patterned paper behind the sentiment strip is actually the other side of that same patterned paper. I thought it fit my Papertrey Ink Berry Sorbet cardstock pretty well, in addition to the pink in the actual image. The pink cardstock is debossed with an impression plate from Papertrey Ink and then diecut with a stitched rectangle die from My Favorite Things. I also added some enamel dots in coordinating colors, as well as a couple of scraps of some doilies I had in my stash.
I popped up the entire image using foam tape – lots of it, I’m not shy when I use foam tape.
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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.
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 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.
Back to the card. I colored up my image with Copics and added some grass and a few freehand flowers to ground her. I added tons of Glossy Accents to the balloons, making them super shiny.
I like making my cards simple, so I put her on a standard A2 sized card base made from Raspberry Fizz cardstock from Papertrey Ink, before adding a scrap of a tiny Doodlebug doily, a couple of strips of patterned paper from Maja Design and Papirdesign diecut with dies from My Favorite Things and a couple of tiny staples.
The sentiment is from a stamp set from Norsk Stempelblad AS, stamped with Memento Tuxedo Black. I added a couple of enamel dots, the pink ones are from Papirdesign, the teal from My Mind’s Eye. I added some divine twine and tied it in a bow as my last finishing touch. And that’s my card for today.
I like plenty of white space on my cards, so I kept most of the card pretty simple. I colored my image with Copics, and I must admit, the colors blend very easily on this cardstock, maybe even too easily. It was kind of difficult to get any real contrast, even though I used some very dark and very light colors to get as much contrast as I could. I would also say that the colors look very different on this cardstock compared to the X-Press It blending card I normally use. The skin tones, in particular, look a lot more blue on this one – not really the look I was going for, I didn’t want her looking sick. I used a lot of E13, but it really doesn’t look that way. Just something to be aware of, I guess.
Since my plan to do a one layer card really didn’t work, I decided to go all out and add an embellishment cluster. I found patterned paper scraps in colors that coordinated well with my image and went to town. I also added a few pieces that I had left over on the inside.
There’s plenty of manufacturers represented in that tiny cluster. The patterned paper with the sentiment (“You’re the world’s best” in Norwegian, stamp from Norsk Stempelblad AS) is from Melissa Frances, the yellow one below it is from Chatterbox, the light blue underneath that is from Inkido, and the pink one that you see a little bit of on either side of the banners is from American Crafts. Two of the banners are scraps from Pion Design, the pale pink is from Maja Design, and the one with the yellow stripes is the same digital Project Life paper that I used at the bottom. I’ve also used a brad from Kaisercraft, a yellow enamel dot from My Mind’s Eye and a pink enamel dot from Papirdesign, in addition to a small paper doily from Doodlebug Design. In other words – a real mishmash, but I think it kind of works. Oh, and I brought out my sewing machine for that stitching detail at the top.
Jeg tok Tim Holtz tissue wrap som jeg skjærte i strimler på 1/2″, kjørte gjennom klistremerkemaskinen min og fargela med Copics. Vips, så hadde jeg washi.
Jeg kjørte hvit kartong gjennom BigShot-maskinen min med en impression plate fra Papertrey Ink, da ble det hvite panelet mitt debosset og så med en gang litt mer spennende ut enn vanlig flat, hvit kartong. Jeg la på tre strimler med min hjemmelagde washi, stemplet et stempel fra Norsk Stempelblad AS med Distress Oxide Fossilized Amber, stanset det ut til en sirkel, stanset ut en gul scallopsirkel som jeg monterte teksten på og proppet det hele opp. Det hvite panelet satte jeg på en gul kortbase av kartong fra Papertrey Ink og pyntet enkelt med noen enamel dots fra My Mind’s Eye.
Papirmølla 