Turtle Birthday Card

Posted on 26th May 2019 by Nicole Mullen
Filed under Card Making Ideas, Projects And Cards By Type, Happy Birthday Card Ideas

Hi all,

Nicole here to share a cute little card, using minimal supplies, but giving great impact. What I used:

• Papermilldirect Hammered White Card
• Papermilldirect Teal Card
• Papermilldirect Buff Smooth Card
• Papermilldirect Spring Green Plain Card
• Papermilldirect Dark Green Plain Card
• Papermilldirect Buff A5 Card Blank
• Patterned Paper
• PaperSmooches Stamps
• Peacock Feathers Distress Ink

I started off by paper piecing the turtle from the PaperSmooches stamp set. You can see him in the stamp set in the first image below and then completed. I added some spots on the turtles shell using the confetti stamp from the set.

I stamped the banner stamp from the set onto my patterned paper using Peacock Feathers Distress Ink. I didn't want to completely hide the patterned paper, and it is a solid stamp. So I stamped the banner stamp once to give a solid impression, and then a second time to give a faint, second impression. This gave me enough of an outline to follow to cut the banner out, and to go over the stitch marks with a white pen. But it still showed the pattern through it. You can see the first impression stamping on the top row in the image below.

I then used the same distress ink to stamp the confetti image from the stamp on the Teal mat layer from the card. This gave a bit of interest and stopped it looking so plain, but was a bit more tone on tone, and not so bold as black ink would have been.

I then added glossy accents onto the spots on the turtles shell to give a bit of texture.

I put all my elements together and that was my card done!

Tagged: Birthday Cards