Single Chevron Happy Birthday

Here is another card I made using the chevron fold as my focal element. Different paper, different direction, different look.

I used two-sided origami paper which was super easy to fold (obviously – lol!). I used that for the mat and greeting as well. White card stock was used for the front panels and base.

I used my score board to emboss the vertical lines and then adhered an embossed panel (Cuttlebug Swiss Dots) in the empty space.

The greeting was cut with the “Doodle Happy Birthday” die from Poppy Stamps. The origami paper is pretty thin so, before I die cut from it, I used double sided Super Tacky Tape to attach card stock to the back of the paper and more Super Tacky Tape to the back of the card stock to make my greeting into sturdy stickers.

Here is the video I watched showing how to do this technique. I actually had to make my (white) front panel a smidge bigger than the size given in the tutorial as my last folded piece hung over the edge a bit. (This happened on my first chevron card as well. For that one, I trimmed the last folded piece a little to make it fit.) I found that the (1 x 2 1/2 inch) folded pieces fit better if my base was 5 3/8 x 4 1/8 inches (instead of 5 1/4 x 4 inches). As a result, the mat/border is now super skinny (1/16 inch on all sides). Maybe I just need more practice positoning the folded pieces…

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Party Animal Selfies

(inside: Thinking of you on your birthday and wishing you the best of everything)

I made these cards for my triplets who turned 24 today. Happy birthday Kelly, Kevin, and Keith! I was very excited when I saw this “Picture Perfect Party Animals” stamp set from My Favorite Things as it had 3 of my kids’ favorite animals in the one set. It’s like they made it for us – lol! The “Poloroid Shaker Frame” die was also from MFT.

The cards are 5×7. The stamped images aren’t that large so I felt like I needed paper that would do a lot of the work. The card stock I chose was from the 12×12 DCWV “The Birthday Wishes Stack” which I’ve had (and have been hoarding!) forever and thought it worked well with these images.

I stamped the images with black Amalgam ink (GKD) and colored them with Copic Markers (giraffe: Y23, E27, Y17, YG25, B05, R29, YR18, 0; monkey: Y17, E27, E25, E23, YG25, B05, B91, 0; elephant: B91, C5, Y17, YG25, B05, TY18, R29, 0).

The inside sentiment is from the “Happy Birthday Frame” set from Stampin’ Up (retired).

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Inlaid Floral Birthday Card

This card features the “Stained Glass Floral” die by Memory Box along with a greeting die called “Doodle Happy Birthday” by Poppy Stamps. I used my score board to deboss the background.

I originally intended this card to be white on white.

Then I wondered how it would look in navy…

I had the negative (navy) pieces from this die cut so thought I’d try adding them to the white die cut…

I can’t decide which version I like best!

I love how the diagonal debossed lines “decorate” the petals and leaves, especially on the inlaid version.

I made the die cuts into stickers by adding Super Tacky Tape by Creek Bank Creations to the back of the card stock before die cutting.

The floral die cut is very thin and delicate and does not hold its shape well when trying to adhere it to the card so I created a template by positioning and cutting the image from plain white card stock that was the same size as my card front. I was able to place the template over the actual card panel and drop the die cut into the negative space on the template and shape it before sticking it down. 

Over at Cardz 4 Galz, we are challenged to create a Clean and Simple (CAS) card.

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