Jul 23, 2015
Blog Design Team: 13 is the Luckiest Number!
Hey there, crafty friends! Today Blog Design Team member, Sharon Harnist has created a wonderful birthday card to celebrate her daughter’s thirteenth birthday! Check it out below…
Now let’s hear from Sharon about her card…
I can’t believe how fast the past 13 years have flown by and now my
youngest daughter will become a teen this weekend! I wanted a little more
grown-up (but still fun!) card for this special occasion, and I thought TE’s
Up, Up, & Away Cutting Plate, combined with
the Graphic Greetings Birthday stamp fit the bill perfectly!To begin, I die-cut the Up, Up, & Away Cutting
Plate from Sugar Cube cardstock and colored the balloons with these
Copic markers:
I love that this cutting plate comes with two additional separate balloon
dies (one of each shape), so I die-cut an additional round Sugar
Cube balloon, colored it with the B000-B01-B02 combo
(since that is her favorite color, like her Momma!), and popped it up with foam
tape over the other balloons.
Next, the background was created by stamping the Graphic Greetings
Birthday several times with beautiful on-trend metallic
Delicata Golden Glitz pigment ink onto a Sugar
Cube panel cut just a little bit smaller than the balloon cutting plate
(approximately 3.75” x 5”). The graphic greeting panel was adhered to a
top-folding A2 card made from Sugar Cube cardstock and the
balloon panel popped up with foam tape over it:
For another glamorous touch, the strings of the balloons were also colored
with the Golden Glitz ink, using a cotton swab. You could
easily change up this color combo to be geared more for a boy, and go
with brighter colors for the balloons and maybe bold black with the graphic
greeting!To finish the card, Whimsy #’s were also die cut from
Sugar Cube cardstock, ombre colored with the
B0000-B000-B01-B02 Copic combo, and attached to the
background/balloon strings using Kool Tak 3D Clear Foam Tape –
since the numbers are so narrow the clear tape won’t show behind them:Here’s a final look at all the great dimension of this card:
Please wish me luck with two teenage girls in the house now! ~ Sharon
Thank you, Sharon for sharing this happy, happy birthday card with us today! Happy birthday to your sweet daughter! Please visit Sharon on her blog, PaperFections, for more of her wonderful work.
