Good Morning all.
Well today im sharing the birthday cards i made for 2 of my nieces, the sisters birthdays are within 2 days of each other so i always make the same design of card but suited to each girl, i also always make the cards that my mum gives them, so 4 cards to show you today.
The first 2 are penny slider cards. Last year i bought a die set to make slider cards, but its in a very very safe place! lol So i went with plan B which is thanks to a birthday card sent to me by blog buddy SomersetSteph, you can find it here
my-paper-corner.blogspot.com, actually i think i like plan B better, hardest part was finding which 2 of my circle dies worked the best for the channel that it slides in. Thank you Steph for the inspiration.
6x6 scalloped white cardbase. Ive then used a pretty patterned paper and copper satin board. After working through my circle dies to get the right sized channel for my pennies joined together with a circluar foam pad i die cut circles into the middle of my patterned paper. I then used 2mm foam tape to attach to the copper satin card, making sure to leave enough room for the pennies to slide easily around.
I computer printed the sentiment and die cut into a circle and added to the middle of the card. I then worked out what i wanted to add to my slider and for Sophie i decided on a butterfly to go with the flowers on the paper. My butterfly die wasn't big enough to completely hide the penny so i die cut a flower from lilac glitter card, glued it to the penny and my butterfly on top.
Pearls, gems and glitter glue to finish. I found the weight of the pennies helps the butterfly slide around, so easy for the children to use.
A close up, this shows the true colours better and the butterfly slide to another position.
and on to the one for Little Lizzy
This time i used a honeycomb neon paper along with pink satin card and a lovely big bumble bee picking up on the honeycomb in the paper. Made exactly the same way, i just added a flower from purple mirror card and i added acetate behind my bee's wings to make them stronger for little hands - Lizzy LOVED it. Their dad who is an engineer was intrigued too!
This show the pink better and my bumblebee in a different position.
I decided to use the circle frame that was left after die cutting my slider channel for gift tags for them both. I used left over scraps to build them up.
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and onto the 2nd cards i made for them, using my new favourite tri panel fold design, i used animals stamps that came free with creative stamping magazine and are actually the twelve days of Christmas, but i thought the pig and calf perfect for the girls living on a farm and winter birthdays.
From white A4 card i scored/ folded it at 3", 1", 2.5", 1" and cut the last bit to 3", it is 7" High.
I first stamped and coloured my dancing piggy, Sophie took up dancing this year, so an ideal image. I stamped with archival ink and coloured with alcohol markers. I decoupaged the skirt. I cut papers and charcoal card to size to matt onto the panels. I die cut the topper into an oval and matted onto a larger charcoal oval and added to the middle panel.
I die cut the name and sentiment from white and charcoal card and off set for a drop shadow and added glitter on top. Stamped age die cut into a circle. Die cut flower & black pearls to finish.
Close up on the dancing piggy
And the one i made for Lizzy, exactly the same way, but using this cute calf image, chocolate brown card for matting. I coloured the calf kind of in Jersey colours as they have several of those on the farm. I used wink of stella pens so they really glitter in the light.
A close up, i added white gel pen highlights to the calf.
Items Used:
12 days of christmas stamps with creative stamping magazine
Spellbinders circle dies
Spellbinders Oval dies
Bumble bee die
Sizzix butterfly die
Flower dies
Alphabet dies
Sentiment dies
Various design papers
Chocolate & Charcoal cardstock - payper box
Scalloped cardblanks - craftUk ltd
Thank you for stopping by, i hope you all have a great weekend. Emmax