Happy Birthday

Posted on 18th August 2023 by Danielle Bigland
Filed under Card Making Ideas, All Papercraft Tutorials, Design Team, Stamping, Any occasion cards, Clean and Simple cards

Hello everyone! Are we well?

I wanted to share a card with you today using some Kraft card. Such a classic card, massively underrated but achieves beautiful effects. Perfect for just about every occasion too!

I'll talk you through this simple card...

The design of my card called for a vase. I could not find one in my stash of stamps nor dies so I drew and cut a template by hand onto copier paper. Once I was happy with this, I drew round it onto some White 180gsm Vellum, first in pencil, then over this in 0.8 fineliner. I then cut this out.

I made a UK A6 top fold card blank using Kraft Materica 250gsm card.

I placed my vellum vase into the centre of this and gently placed pencil mark at the top and bottom to create a guide for the vase.

Between this marks, I drew 3 flower stems using a fineliner and coloured in a green Alcohol marker.

I now removed the pencil marks.

I wrapped a cream ribbon bow round the neck on the vellum vase.

I stamped, coloured and cut 3 floral images onto 250gsm white Super Smooth Card. I added liberal amounts of highlight using my white gel pen.

I decided to also add some leaves to my flowers as per the previous step.

Glue shows through vellum, so I attached my vase to my card using small amounts of adhesive to the top of the vase where it would be obscured my both the ribbon and the flowers.

I placed my flowers until I was happy with the composition and once happy, adhered them using wet adhesive.

I finished by adding a sentiment from a pack of pre printed sentiments in my stash using foam tape. This overlapped the vase which also helped secure it.

I also added some clear flatback cabachons to compliment the look.

I hope you enjoyed this tutorial.

Until next time, take care.

Love, Dani xx

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