Birthday Card.. step by step

I'm sure most of you reading this can make cards, Not only that I am sure most of your cards will blow mines out of the water. This is more of a Post to show step-by-step what I do to make a card. I was asked to do this twice already so I figured maybe others would like to see it as well. Hope you enjoy and find it useful :)

Supply List

• tan or white cardstock 8.5 x 11 (cut in half)
• Fiskars rotary trimmer
• Fiskars scoring tool
• scotch ATG
• Pink Paislee 365* degrees collection
• Colorbox ink (holiday set for red)
• Prima say it in pearls
• DCWV citrus flower embellie
• BasicGrey cardstock swirls (june bug collection)
• atyouspica #21 lipstick (pen)
• happy birthday or title stamp

1.  Start with a Piece of cardstock and cut it to size, you can make a card as big or as small as you want If you are using store bought envelopes I would make it smaller than that remember you will be folding the cards in half so measure accordingly.

2. I score it down the middle so I get a nice clean fold, I use my trimmer's guide to make sure my line is straight down the middle.

3. Fold the card  using your score line, If your fold is uneven you can always trim it down the sides/bottom some, but I  try to get as close to perfect as possible so I don't have to trim it.

4.Then I ink the edges, I used red, I slightly tilt the card and rub the edges of the card gently against ONLY the edges of the ink pad.

It should look like this (excuse the blur didn't notice till I loaded it)

5. Cut the accent paper down to size, I like to make it smaller so I have a border. Measure your card and cut according to what look you want I try I do a cm all around sometimes more.

SN: I'm using Pink paislee Dream big 365* degrees collection

6. After I've made sure it's the size I want, I ink the edges the same way as before

7. Using my ATG gun I adhere the accent piece to the front of my card

like this

8. Cut and ink two accent pieces of the same paper (one square and one skinny strip across)

 

9. Glue long strip across middle of paper

 

and then the square piece on top of that one

10. Ink the Pink Paislee Journaling spot

11. Using my ATG I adhered the journaling spot to the center of the card

12. I added two Basic grey Die cut sticker flourishes to the edges of the journaling spot.

13. I add 2 red rhinestones to the side of the blue strip and then one on each flourish

14. I got my pearls and used them to line the BasicGrey flourishes

15. using my wooden stamp I stamped happy birthday in the center of the journaling spot

16. It came out so light so I used my pen to fill in the happy birthday stamp

This is what it looked like after filling it in I thought I was done but something made me feel it needed more color...

17. I added orange rhinestones to the curve

and an orange 3 d flower (dcwv citrus) to the bottom

The new finished card.

New Card... Step by step pics and a new tutorial coming soon :)

Hello Scrap-Friends I made a quick tutorial for this card not as detailed as the red one I will be posting later (still typing it out) Hope you enjoy it :)



1. Starting with a white piece of Cardstock cut to size (depending on the envelope or size you want) Score down the middle for a nice crisp fold and Fold

2. I chose an accent paper from Pink Paislee-  Daydream from the 365* degrees collection then cut out a square smaller than my card so that I wouold have a border of white around it. (about 1 cm off each edge)

3.I inked the edges white and then inked the edges of the white card blue and adhered the two centering the blue paper

4. I then cut out a skinny strip from the white cs and inked it and placed it across the middle of the blue paper. I took an orange journaling box from the same collection and Inked it in blue and placed it in the center of the card. (pic coming)

5. Take two small fabric flowers and placed them in the corner of the journaling box

6. Take two blue Prima flowers and placed those on top

7. Now fill the centers with a flower center, I used orange rhinestones to match the Journaling spot.

8.Next I cut out a say it in pearls design and place part of it across the bottom of the journaling spot coming from the lowest flower

9.  Add a second swirl to the top of that same flower creating an tilted corner

10. fill the bottom corner with pearl swirls any left overs from the design.

11. Stamp and fill a title or add a quote, rubon etc.  Easy as 1, 2, 11 ;)

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Chipboard Mini album tutorial

 I made a mini album for My Mil's birthday and actually took pics as I went along. Please excuse the quality of the pics, It was hard to take the pics and show what I was doing. Next time I will have help.  Hopefully this is a helpful tutorial.. feedback is always appreciated :) This is just for the cover page, the rest will be posted after she receives the book but you can see it in my gallery at Acot.


OK first I started with a Bare elements chipboard album (by creative imaginations)
I traced the chipboard page on the back of the pp I wanted to use. I chose one that had a frog on it by colorbox (MIL loves frogs) ( TIP: be sure to place the side you are going to cover facing down on the back of the pp) I then removed the chipboard page.

I cut out the paper and adhered it to the chipboard page, using Aileen's tacky glue. I then took a piece of brown card stock and lined it up on the front so I could see how far I wanted it to go.

I marked the place and then flipped it over so I could trace just the top portion onto the brown cs.

I removed the book and cut out the brown cs

Next using adhesive of your choice ( you can use any scrapbooking adhesive for this part, I used my ATG gun) Place the topper down on your page.

Next flip it over and punch Holes directly through the chipboard holes. ( you want to do this before you cover the back  with paper to make sure you don't cover them.)

Now you can cover the back of this page the same way.

Now for those slightly uneven or rough edges I like to sand them and ink just to give it a nice look.  This is all about your comfort and style so You can easily skip this step.

Once both sides are covered you can add large eyelets (make sure your ring fits through before you attach them) I used my CAD 2 just because It was close but my smaller pink one works just as well.

Next I Placed ribbon across the front I like the brown cs peeking out at the bottom so I put it up higher.

I wanted more color so I added a multi color ribbon on top of the green..

now have fun and decorate with embellies... I added a Tim holtz journal ticket, a sassafras lass card (jungle bungle) and Layered 2 chipboard circles and placed a chip title across the front.

Now for the title, I like to add the title last just because it gives you the option to overlap embellies and make sure it stands out. I used a glitter rub-on.

  excuse the bad pics

You can repeat the steps above for each page decorating as you like.

and Here is the finished book. I will show the rest of the pages later, Acot ladies can see it in my gallery there.

Thanks for looking please leave a comment and let me know what you think of the book or tutorial. I appreciate any feedback :)

Edit to add the rest of the book now that MIL has recieved it :D