Birthday Blues

Posted on 17th September 2023 by Nicole Mullen
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Nm Blue Texture Bday Card 8

Cards for men can be hard, especially for big milestones. I love using the darker tones that Papermilldirect do for these cards and adding in texture and layers for some interest. On this card I used:

Nm Blue Texture Bday Card 1

I started my card by creating matts of the navy and oltremare linen effect card on the white card base.

Nm Blue Texture Bday Card 2

The texture on the Nettuno card is beautiful. But for this birthday card I wanted a little more pop of texture. So I embossed the oltremare layer with an embossing folder.

Nm Blue Texture Bday Card 3

I cut two frames for on top of the panels to add my sentiment onto. I decided at this point to introduce some Hammered White to the card.

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I also felt that the background needed a little more lifting and the sentiment frames needed a bit of grounding onto the background so I added some pale blue seam binding ribbon. I have it placed on the layers here to test the colour match.

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I stamped my sentiment using a combination of birthday stamps and alphabet stamps for the 'th'. I die cut the number 80 using a Tim Holtz number die.

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I then adhered the ribbon and sentiment panels and added some gems, and it was done. The card was very well received by a very young at heart 80 year old!

Nm Blue Texture Bday Card 8

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