Happy Birthday Negative Butterflies Card

Hello!

Today I am presenting a birthday card for your viewing pleasure.  Often at this time of year we are so wrapped up in Christmas that birthday's can be overshadowed.  So today we celebrate those with a December birthday to let them know they are special to.

Materials Needed:

• Card base (white)
• Purple paper (one dotted, one glitter, one plain)
• Butterfly die
• Happy Birthday stamp
• Sliver embossing powder and embossing ink
• Sliver gel pen

To make this card:

• Cut the dotted paper so that it is 0.5 cm shorter on each side than your card base.  Using the butterfly die, cut three butterflies out of the paper.
• Cut the glitter paper into three pieces that are big enough to cover the card base underneath each of the butterflies.  Use a pencil to mark the edges of each butterflies on the card base and adhere the glitter paper so that all marks are covered.  Adhere the dotted paper to the card base with dimensional foam.
• Stamp and emboss the Happy Birthday onto the plain purple paper.  Cut and trim to make a banner shape, then adhere to the bottom section of the card with foam.  Create a dotted line border with the gel pen.

There you go.  This card is actually quite easy to make, the hardest part is lining up the glitter paper underneath so that none of the white shows through. It would be easier to just cut a piece of the glitter paper exactly the same size as the dotted paper, but I feel like its a bit of a waste when so much of it is covered up.

This card is easily adapted too, changing the colour, shape of the die, and the sentiment will produce a variety of cards for many occasions.

Til next week!

Stacey

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Christmas Card Number Seven

Hello,

It seems that Saturdays are now my posting day, so I may just continue on with this pattern and see how it goes.

Today's card is designed to be easily massed produced as well as being easy to change aspects of it so you don't get bored after the 20th card.  I made three different versions with the same design in less than an hour (I spent most of this time picking what paper I wanted to use!).

As you can see they all have a repeated stamp across the top, the gold stripe, the embossed sentiment and the patterned paper.  The differences lie in the stamps used, the paper used and the size of the paper used.

Materials needed:

• Patterned paper
• Gold paper
• Red, green and embossing ink
• Gold embossing powder
• Christmas themed stamp and a "Merry Christmas" stamp
• Gold gel pen
• White card base

To make the card:

Cut a piece of the patterned paper to fit across the bottom of the card base.  Stamp and emboss the Merry Christmas towards the middle right of the paper.  Adhere the piece to the card base.  Cut a small strip of gold paper and adhere above the patterned paper.  Stamp the Christmas themed stamp several times above the gold paper alternating the colours.  Using the gel pen, colour small portions of each of the stamps.

And there you have it, a simple design to make a bunch of Chirstmas cards!

Till next time

Stacey