This card in a box has been done with a Nautical theme for a young man that will be 21 years old at beginning of next week.
It only seems like yesterday I was making his 18th card.... where does the time go.
This Box is much larger than the previous card in boxes I have done before.
This means it needs more stuff sprouting out of it. So this box has 5 bridges inside to hold all the lollipops (so to speak)
The stamps sets I used to fill this box were "Open Sea"
"By the tide", "Banner Blast", "Cheers to you", Hello Sailor," all from Stampin up although some are now retired. They were all heat embossed using black embossing powder, then sponged over with three different inks.
bashful blue,so saffron, and lucky limeade.
I think I used Stampin' ups whole range of circle punches plus the bigz circles die to cut out all the designs and backing circles. The corresponding banner blast punch was used to cut the banners.
Glimmer paper was used along with the number dies to make the 21 a little more glimmer paper touches in the form of a banner and a little heart as the card will be from his mum, who obviously loves him so the tiny heart seemed a subtle way of adding some love.
Mum also chose the words I typed up and added to the back section of the box, leaving her plenty of room to add some extra messages if she so wishes.
I used the "The World" stamp by Stampin' Up to decorated the side panels of the box. Heat embossed in black and again sponged with the above mentioned colours.
The base of the box was stamped using the new "hardwood" background stamp from S.U.
The lighthouse is just a small section of a stamp I have owned for many years and only ever used once. I thought this was the perfect opportunity to get it out again.
I have to get it in post now or it won't arrive in time for his birthday.
I really enjoy making these tunnel cards but sometime I can't decide just what to put in them. This time I wanted to do something using Stampin' Up products .
I chose the Banner Blast stamp set and
coordinating punch from this years
sale a bration catalogue, the hardwood background stamp from the spring and summer supplement catalogue.
A various colours of ink, the small single heart punch, the tiny heart from the owl punch and a small alphabet stamp set. (I purchased many years ago from somewhere I can't remember.)
Just to make the outside of this new home card for my son and his family who moved house last weekend.
For the inside of the card I used the owl punch and the leafy branch pieces are from the bird punch both from Stampin' up.
To make the Owl wings, I punched one scallop circle embossed it using the square lattice embossing folder. Then I cut it into four quarters and glued two quarters to the back of each owl.
The owls were a little bit too wobbly on the branch and needed a little more support.
To stabilize the owls a little better, I punched a further two owls bodies and glued them to the back of the owls, after they had been stuck to the branch, so the big branches are sandwiched between the the two layers of the owls bodies.
The bigger branches were cut free hand with scissors. I then glued little bits of foliage to the back branches.
I slotted the branches into the folds at the sides of the card making sure they were not glued into the same fold as I want to create more depth by having one further back than the other. Then I glued them into position.
The background started off as a 5"x7"piece of daffodil delight yellow card stock which I sponged over the top with red riding hood and calypso coral ink from SU and I left the bottom section of the card un-inked.
