Birthday Card

 

Another week already!

This week I made a Birthday card for a friend so I thought that I would share it with you.

As Summer wraps up, I thought I would go with a bright and fun card.

I used the regular size that we do for cards, 6 ¾ x4 ¾. I picked a bright green as my base and then layered a 6 ¼ x 4 ¼ bright pink layer on top.

Before doing that I stamped the pink layer with beige ink and then used white embossing powder over it to make for bright white words. I left some space under the words, an inch or so. Then I flattened this layer.

                                   

I punched some bright green hearts, three to be exact. Then when the layer was flat, I glued the three hearts under the words.

                                                       

Then finally I glued the layer onto the card and then a bright cheery Birthday card was created!  

                                                       

DIY Thank You

We’ve moved on past another holiday and the themed blog posts that go along with it (don’t worry we have some more fun themes coming up). It's time to do some catch up now so we are making some cards that we have run out of at the stores. We're going to make some "Thank You" cards. We thought it’d be a good idea to come up with a new one of these as we haven’t designed a new one in a while.

We are always thinking how to use those leftover bits that we have from making our cards and Nicole has come up with a very easy and creative idea which we are going to show you how to do in today’s tutorial.

You will need ink, a “Thank You” or any greeting stamp, embossing powder, a 6 x 4 ¼ inch card, scissors, glue, and three roughly 6 ¾ x ¾ inch strips. We are making a white card and are stamping in black ink. You can go with any colour combination when it comes to strips and ink. Choose something that you like and think goes nicely together. It’s always best if you use three different colours or shades.

First off, stamp “Thank You” on one of the strips. We stamped in black and embossed in clear powder on the orange strip.

Next you can glue the strips onto the card kinda like this...

Then trim the strips like this...

The final product will look something like this. It’s so simple and it takes very little time to make. You can make different versions of it for lots of different occasions plus if you make lots of cards like us, you’re not letting all the scraps go to waste!