Welcome to the monthly Stampin' Dreams Blog Hop. You are currently visiting Stephanie Fischer (The Crafty Thinker) from Australia.
Our theme this month is to provide "Birthday" inspiration - which really helped me focus on making this 40th birthday card for my niece! The inspiration for the floating frame part of the card came from a card I saw that was made by
Terri Gaines.
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| A very bright & cheerful 40th birthday card for a very bright & cheerful person! |
My card has different dimensions: The Basic Black base card is cut to 9" x 5.5" and scored on the long side at 4.5" and 7
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| Butterfly Gala, Layering Ovals dies and Tufted embossing folder provide the main elements in this easel card |
I cut the oval from the centre of the Lovely Lipstick foil sheet and then embossed with the Tufted embossing folder. I also cut the same oval shape from the centre of the front of the card.
The window sheet is glued between the black and white frames. TIP: I find that I get the best result when gluing window sheet by using the Fine Tip Glue Pen.
The butterflies inside the card are stamped individually (it's a double stamp) by applying the ink to one butterfly at a time on the stamp using a Basic Gray Marker Pen. When adding the Melon Mambo colour with the two step stamping technique, I stamped off first to reduce the ink saturation. To achieve the slightly darker bottom wings on the large butterfly I repeated the process.
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| The easel card looks like this when it's closed |
To cut the numbers, I had to resort to using a retired die set.
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'Til next time!
Stephanie
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