Morning!
I’m over on the Seven Hills Blog today with a fun new birthday card project.
I’ve paired up some of the new items from The Greetery’s recent birthday release with a couple of versatile sets from Concord & 9th.
Stamps: Concord & 9th – Playful Patterns, The Greetery – Tear Strip Tags, Concord & 9th – Paint Swash Turnabout
Dies: The Greetery – Tear Strip Banners, Hero Arts – Infinity Nesting Circles, Hero Arts – Infinity Nesting Rectangles, The Greetery – Crimped Circles, The Greetery – Takes the Cake Mini
I already had a colour palette in mind for this project, so I grabbed the Paint Swash Turnabout set and the new and improved All-in-One Turnabout Jig from Concord & 9th to create an A2 background that I could later trim down to use on my card.
Next, it was time to create the star of my card with the new Takes the Cake Mini die set from The Greetery. There are so many fun elements in this set for creating all sorts of fancy cakes – you’ve got icing details, layers for rainbow cakes, the little candles, and the cake stand.
I wanted to replicate the look of a fancy marbled/ombré effect on my cake. So I cut the cake from cream cardstock and used a small blending brush to stipple light teal ink over the cake for a mottled effect. I cut the icing from glittery cream cardstock and added some grey shading to the cake stand.
To colour the candles, I reached for a very handy little stamp set that I often use to add blocks of colour/patterns to small die-cuts. I used the solid rectangle in the Playful Patterns set to stamp yellow and teal rectangles one on top of the other on a scrap piece of white cardstock.
There’s a notch in the candle die that makes it easy to line up the flames over the yellow, and cutting the candles this way round instead of colouring them later is much less fiddly and also means the colouring is nice and uniform.
The recent projects showcased by Betsy from The Greetery used coloured vellum in some very creative ways. But my stash of coloured vellum from circa 2004 has long-since been donated elsewhere. So I decided to make my own coloured vellum to match the pink tones in the background.
I grabbed a piece of plain Lawn Fawn vellum and rubbed a Saltwater Taffy Distress Ink pad over the vellum, rubbing away the excess with a microfibre cloth between applications until I reached the intensity I wanted. The vellum was also dry to the touch after rubbing with a microfibre cloth, so no need to zap it with a heat gun and potentially warp the vellum.
For extra pop and texture, I snipped into my die-cut vellum circle with a pair of scissors, creating a fringed effect. I then popped the vellum circle on one of the Crimped Circle dies from The Greetery with a blob of glue hidden by the mini cake.
Finally, for my greeting, I combined a sentiment from the original Tear Strip Tags stamp set with the new Tear Strip Banners die.
Until next time, happy crafting!
 Concord & 9th – Playful Patterns stamps Shop at: EH | MISC | SBC | SHC (UK) |
 The Greetery – Tear Strip Tags stamps Shop at: SHC (UK) | TG |
 Concord & 9th – Paint Swash Turnabout stamp Shop at: EH | MISC | SBC | SHC (UK) |
 The Greetery – Tear Strip Banners die Shop at: SHC (UK) | TG |
 Hero Arts – Infinity Nesting Circles dies Shop at: SBC | SHC (UK) |
 Hero Arts – Infinity Nesting Rectangles dies Shop at: EH | SBC | SHC (UK) |
 The Greetery – Crimped Circles dies Shop at: SHC (UK) | TG |
 The Greetery – Takes the Cake Mini dies Shop at: SHC (UK) | TG |
 Distress ink pad – Saltwater Taffy Shop at: EH | SBC | SHC (UK) |
 The Stamp Market – Blush Pink ink pad Shop at: MISC |
 The Stamp Market – Citrine ink pad Shop at: MISC |
 The Stamp Market – Island ink pad Shop at: MISC |
 The Stamp Market – Lagoon ink pad Shop at: MISC |
 The Stamp Market – Sea Glass ink pad Shop at: MISC |
 The Stamp Market – Tropic Teal ink pad Shop at: MISC |
 Versafine – Onyx Black ink pad Shop at: AZ (UK) | EH | SBC | SHC (UK) |
 Bazzill Cardshoppe – Butter Mints Shop at: AZ (UK) | EH |
 Neenah Classic Crest 110 lb smooth Solar White cardstock Shop at: AZ (UK) | EH |
 Lawn Fawn – Vellum Shop at: SBC | SHC (UK) |
 Memory Box – Delicate Pastel glitter pad Shop at: MISC |
 Tombow – Mono-Multi liquid glue Shop at: AZ (UK) | EH |
 3M Scotch double-sided foam tape Shop at: AZ (UK) | EH |
 Concord & 9th – All-in-One Turnabout Jig Shop at: MISC | SBC | SHC (UK) |
 Lawn Fawn – Stamp shammy cleaner Shop at: EH | SBC | SHC (UK) |
 MISTI stamping tool Shop at: EH | SBC |
 Detail blending brushes Shop at: AZ (UK) |
 Waffle Flower – Mini Media Mat Shop at: EH | SBC | SHC (UK) |
 Sizzix – Big Shot machine Shop at: AZ (UK) | SBC |
 Sizzix – Sidekick machine Shop at: AZ (UK) | SBC |
 Thermoweb iCraft – Purple tape for die-cutting – 1 1/2″ Shop at: AZ (UK) |
 Tim Holtz – Tonic guillotine trimmer (maxi) Shop at: AZ (UK) | EH | SBC |
 Tim Holtz – Tonic guillotine trimmer (small) Shop at: AZ (UK) | EH | SBC |
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