Showing posts with label handmade birthday cards. Show all posts
Showing posts with label handmade birthday cards. Show all posts

Wednesday 26 August 2020

Celebrate sunflowers stamp set


This is cheerful  little  6 x 4 inch card was inspired by a  Sarah Hardy tutorial. I loved Sarah's card  so much I just had to C.A.S.E  it.  It's not an exact copy of Sarah's, partly because I cased it 3 weeks after viewing her video. So I made what I thought I remembered from her video.
One thing I did change deliberately is the base card. I chose to use a white one instead of navy.    99 percent of my cards start with a white base card because the white card I use  is heavier than the coloured card  I buy from S.U. and I do like a robust card. It also means I don't have to put a white insert in  which saved me time and card.  I also missed out a layer of card a under the DSP.
 The  corner fold is deeper on my card,  because I used the diagonal plate on my score board  instead of using Sarah's measurements.



Because I changed the colour of the base card I had to reverse the colours on the inside.

Having completed the 6 x 4 card I wanted to know if it would work if it was sized up to  7 x 5 inches and  using the same DSP.
  The white borders had to be a little broader and I had to add a layer of Navy card to take up some of the white border as the DSP  measures only 6 x6 inches.
I coloured the sun flowers with Copic markers which results in the ink bleeds through the card.  Not a nice look... That  meant I had to  stick a second layer of card on the back of the sun flower and leaves before assembling the card parts.


Friday 12 October 2018

Birthday wit card.

Earlier in the week I decided to play with the Birthday wit stamp set. 
For this card I stamped the background paper using lots of little foliage stamps that I bought from a craft show a few years ago. the colours  I used were Concorde crush,  Granny apple green, lovely lilac and smokey slate.
The sentiment I stamped in Concorde crush and the stmaped it again in Granny apple green. I cut out the Happy Birthday and stuck it over the  Happy Birthday I'd stamped in purple.



Tuesday 18 September 2018

Postcard Pals

Another card using the Postcard Pals stamp set. This time I used the netting stamp from the Ghoulish Grunge stamp set to create a background paper.