Hey lovelies!
I'm back this week with another birthday card, I find it handy to always have a couple stashed away in case I forget or I'm too busy to sit down and create one week! This time I'm using the adorable "Be Hap-Pea" stamp set from Lawn Fawn, I love a good punny set!
I'm back this week with another birthday card, I find it handy to always have a couple stashed away in case I forget or I'm too busy to sit down and create one week! This time I'm using the adorable "Be Hap-Pea" stamp set from Lawn Fawn, I love a good punny set!
I stamped a couple of the peas out and one of the pods using Memento Tuxedo Black ink, I used some of the adorable faces that come with the set to give them different expressions! As I planned for this to be a birthday card I made sure to stamp one wearing a party hat too. I coloured them using my alcohol markers and added some highlights and details with a white gel pen before fussy cutting them all out. I used a craft knife to cut along the middle line of the pea pod so I could adhere three of my peas inside it using Scor-Tape.
I cut all of my panels from heavy weight white card stock, I used the largest of the "Basic Rectangles" Creative Cuts from Mama Elephant for my background panel. For my focal point on my card I used the smaller scalloped die from the "Framed Tags" Waverly Creative Cuts from Mama Elephant and used one of the circle dies from Honey Bee Stamps' "Double Stitched Circles" Honey Cuts to create the window. I used the leaf stamp from the set to stamp leaves all over my background panel with Memento Tuxedo Black ink again, coloured them with my alcohol markers and used a white gel pen to add highlights.
I used my Misti stamping tool to keep my scalloped panel in place and used my powder tool applicator to prep my panel. I used Versafine Onyx Black ink to stamp my sentiment, removing it from my Misti before coating it in clear embossing powder and setting the powder with my heat tool. I cut another scalloped panel from white card stock and blended it with Squeezed Lemonade Distress Oxide Ink, sprayed it with my Distress Sprayer and cleaned up the excess water. I adhered the yellow panel behind my windowed panel using Scor-Tape so my window would have the yellow background.
I adhered my peas in the pod and the one slightly behind it with Scor-Tape, but decided to pop the one standing on top of the pod up with 3M Scotch Double Sided Foam Tape. I took my scalloped panel, adhered it to my background panel using foam tape once again so it was slightly raised and adhered to my card base.
Thanks for reading lovelies! Do you always keep a stash of birthday cards at the ready? I have to admit I've been pretty poor at keeping a stash myself lately, but I'm slowly building one back up! I'll see you next week with another card!
Claire
xo