Card Making: Melodic Birthday

Today we will be making a card for a musician friend. I love the musical theme, as I am sure that most of us do, and therefore this card is great fun. There is a lot of layering, stamping and even some die-cutting involved with making this card. I walk you step by step through the process, as usual.

We start the card on one of these index cards.

I scribble three shades of Faber-Castell Gelatos diagonally across the card.

I wipe these with a wet-wipe to blend it.

I find some Chiswick Clear Stamps and a Chiswick Stamp Mount to stamp onto the card with.

The stamp pad is an Adirondack by Ranger.

I add some sentiments with a Croxley Milky Pen.

I then use Tombow glue to add some golden embellishments to the index card, before I am done with it and ready to move on to mounting it on a bigger card.

I find a yellow A4 sheet of cardboard to use as a card.

I use a bone folder to fold the cardboard in half to form a card.

I then find some coordinating pink paper to use as matting under the index card.

I crop the matting to size with a Dala Craft pen and a metal ruler.

I ink the edges of the matting with Ranger Archival Ink.

I also ink the edges of the index card.

I then use double-sided tape to layer the elements.

I wish to add a 'Happy Birthday' sentiment which I will die-cut. I will use a sheet of my Scrap Booking Paper collection to cut the sentiment from. These are available from the Crazy Store and are inexpensive.

I will be using this Kaizer Craft die to cut the sentiment with.

I cut the paper as big as I need it to be.

I layer some double-sided tape to the back of the paper. This will make it easier to paste the sentiment down after it is cut.

I put my sandwich through the Go Cut & Emboss machine.

The die has little holes in it to make it easy to pop the sentiment out.

Pull away the backing from the double-sided tape.

The card is done when I have pasted down the sentiment.

You can watch a compilation video of the above steps on YouTube:
https://youtu.be/nrrWDfMc9Sc

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