Happy Birthday Tags

For your next special occasion - why not give a tag instead of a card?

 

Tag 1

Start by smearing silver paint all over a piece of black cardstock. Add a 'trellis' die cut bit of patterned paper, muslin and some cut up pieces of our Black Butterflies & Flowers felt ribbon.

Pop on a butterfly from our Sweet Purity "Wings and Things" collection, plus a 1cm white roses ...

 

 and tuck in one of our Happy Birthday Charms, centering it with a piece of felt and a couple of 1cm white roses.

(Happy Birthday Charms are 5 in a packet for $1.60 available here)

Use some heat embossing (with some black glitter embossing powder and my favourite Kaisercraft script stamp) to add more background texture.

Our black gardenia (with the stamens cut out and liquid-glued Licorice Twist Sugar Beads added to the center) makes a lovely focal point.  Tucked in below the gardenia is our Silver Birdhouse Charm and I've added in a bit of stamped script to the open space at the bottom of the tag.

 

Tag 2

Start by cutting out a tag using some black cardstock.  Rip a strip of patterned paper for one side of tag and add some cut-up pieces of our Black Butterflies & Flowers felt ribbon for the other side.  

Now use some watered-down Kaisercraft Gold Paint (it must be metallic to show up on the black cardstock and we have the paint available here) to spray over your tag.  It gives it all a gorgeous glimmer!

Pop on our brown stemmed flowers, and some "word" stickers and a Brown Laughter Charming word to complete the greeting.

Finish off with a Bronze Bird on a swing Charm, some of our brown ric rac, brown organza ribbon and tea stained muslin - and ta dahhhh!!! You are finished. How easy can it get?

If you had fun making this card or like the technique - consider using the same gold spraying/Black Butterflies & Flowers felt ribbon technique again with our double page layout (that I taught recently) - available as a kit in the my2angels kit section here.

Felt frame birthday card

It's Tracy's and my birthday (yes, we're twins) and I made her a happy birthday card using lots of her my2angels goodies! 

It all started out with a black felt frame. I covered it with pink felt ribbon (it's on sale!) and trimmed it off at the edges of the black frame. This makes the big frame a little subtler. 

Using some Twinkling H2Os I coloured a piece of white cardstock (you can also use water colours or Gelatos) and did some stamping to darken the edges. 

The bottom corners were decorated with 2 filigree corners. I inked them with Versamark ink and heat embossed them in white to match the card. 

 The filigree butterfly got the same treatment. I used fine embossing powder and only did one coat of embossing to retain the details in the metal. 
Now it was just a matter of adding lots of pink and silver embellies.

 I used:

- star flowers (cut apart to go further)

- pink cabochon flower 

- large button (see a big range of buttons here)

- roses 

- leaf charms 

- silver cabochon flower 

- a pin (see lots of designs here)

To finish off the card I glued the decorated frame on a folded piece of black cardstock and cut around the outside (leave some of the folded line uncut). I felt a rectangular card would have messed with the groovy shape of the felt frame.

I hope Tracy likes it!
♥♥♥
Geli

Antique Wings and Things Framed Birthday Card

Like the vintage look? Doesn’t matter if you don't - you will love this Antique Wings and Things kit regardless once  you see how stunning (and versatile) it is.

Hi, Susan here again.
 I used this wonderful kit to make a birthday card with a difference.

Here's how I made this card:

Step 1 - Alter Wooden Frame

I picked up a cheap frame from Ikea and altered it to match the

vintage style Antique Wings and Things kit. 

Take the frame apart and lightly sand the frame.  Paint the frame (I painted it cream).  Once dry, sand edges (heavily sand some parts of the edges).  I then randomly rubbed Walnut Stain Distress Ink in places and where the edges were heavily sanded, I rubbed in Inka Gold – Old Gold.

After painted and sanded, randomly rub in Walnut Stain Distress Ink and Inka Gold.

Step 2 - Prepare Back Piece

Cut a piece of thick card the same size as the inside of the wooden frame. 

Paint with Distress Paints (I used Picket Fence).

Using stencilling or modelling paste, stencil your chosen design onto the back piece. 

(I did not stencil all over, however you may wish to - or you may want to stencil the wooden frame instead)

Once stencilling/modelling paste is dry, I painted again with Picket Fence Distress Paint.  Once paint is dry, randomly spray areas with Perfect Pearls/Glimmer Mists. I used Heirloom Gold, Perfect Pearls, Bronze and Powder Blush. If your colours are too strong, use a tissue to remove some colour and once dry, you can also spray all over with Perfect Pearls.

If you don’t have these, you can make your own sprays using Perfect Pearls powders.

A HINT:  If you are impatient like me,

you can use a heat gun to speed up the drying process.

Step 3 - Colour Flowers (if not already the colour you want)

 My2Angels has many flowers (white, cream or coloured) for you to select from.

I changed the white roses using the some of the same colours I used for the back piece - Powder Blush, a small amount of Copper and lastly Perfect Pearls.  I painted just the edges of the rose petals with gold paint using a dry paint brush.

Step 4 - Alter Other Pieces

I also used some muslin and a white crochet doily, both of which I changed the colour of with tea

to give a more vintage look.

I found a cheap metal frame, which I spray painted cream.  Once dry, I lightly sanded the raised parts of the frame and rubbed in Inka Gold – Old Gold onto the raised areas.

Step 5 - Put Frame Card Together

Adhere your prepared back piece to the wooden frame backing and place back into the wooden frame.

Adhere strips of pearls around the inside edge of the wooden rame.

Stamp 'Happy Birthday' onto cream card and cut out with circle punch. Adhere into brass frame from the kit and adhere the epoxy circle on top of this. Adhere to wooden frame.

Stamp sentiment onto the frame (if you wish).

Adhere an Antique Bronze Large Flower Filigree to the bottom of the frame.  Adhere a piece of muslin onto the filigree flower.  

 Using Scrap Dots Silicon Glue (or similar), adhere the white roses which have been coloured.  

 You can then stick pieces of Ivory Pearl Garland in between the roses, making sure they are pushed into the silicon glue.

Finish putting together as per the sample pictured.

Charmed Life, Exploding Box Card.

Hi Everyone, Jen here!!

I thought I'd jump on the exploding box bandwagon!  AND since Tracy has the most gorgeous Charmed Life Kits - I thought I'd combine the two :)  Cameron turns 14 in October so I'm getting in nice and early!!  I love the Charmed life colour kits as they're so versatile! I could have just as easily made the blue kit into a "Frozen" themed Exploding Box Card!

I started with Tracy's Charmed Life Blue kit.  Since it has 4 x 2x3" cards - that was my side panels half done for me! I cut 2 of the 4x6" cards in half to create another 4 side panels and then had to decide which 4 for the outside and which 4 for the inside!! I then chose a few stamps, a couple of relevant charms and a "14" in chipboard (which I 'painted' with aquamarine Inka Gold), and die cut "Happy Birthday" from some matching dark blue cardstock.

I decorated a couple of the cards with the extra charms, stamped my greetings, wrote my message, and stuck my '14' on :).  I created a template for the box and for the lid and then cut them from white cardstock.  I distressed the edges and inked them with midnight blue stazon ink.

For the lid 'card' I cut one of the remaining 4x6 Charmed Life cards down to fit and stamped "Happy Birthday" then I added the blue bead charm.

I adhered all the cards to the box base and lid with double sided tape and put a plain dark blue square on the inside centre base.  For the 'gift' I've included 14 columbines and a rolled up $100 note in the blue bag - but shhh don't tell him!!

Closed Box...

 Take the lid off and...

This is the lid with all the 'outside' of the box...

I do hope you like Cameron's Charmed Exploding Box card, they're super easy to make as Tracy does most of the hard work for you before you even buy the Charmed Life Kit!

And they're so very effective!

2 quick cards with the mini birthday kit

Some like to have a good stash of birthday cards ready and some slap them together at the last minute (I belong to the latter group). No matter which one you are, the mini birthday kits make it soooo easy and they're only $2.00!  

 Each kit comes with easy-to-follow instructions to assemble your embellies and in no time at all you've got something cute and handmade to put on your cards.

These mini kits are available in:

red (click here)

blue (click here)

and lime green (click here)

All I added was some washi tape, 2 white cards, some red and; white cardstock and a little extra twine.

♥♥♥

The steps were photographed at night, please excuse the bad light.

First, outline an oval die (or whatever shape you have) on white cardstock...

...and cover the area with washi tape...

...then die cut the oval. Die cut a matching shape in red.

Glue the ovals together and emboss your card. Make the candles from the embellishment kit and stick them on top. Done!

Next, cover the whole front of the second card with washi tape:

 Punch 2 strips of white cardstock, as long as the card is wide. Glue the birthday word under (or over) one of the strips. Attach the strips to the top and bottom of the card.

  Add a little extra twine and the gift charm and you're done. 

A few drops of Liquid Pearls finish the look (I used baby blue).

See how easy that was! Why not give it a try yourself.

♥♥♥

Geli

Interactive Boys Birthday cards

My nephew loves sports, so for his birthday card this year, I created an interactive soccer birthday card using the Simply Stories December Documented Bright Green Chevrons Pattern Paper.  Who said Christmas paper can't be used for other themes?

I started by downloading a clipart picture of a soccer net and printing it out to fit on my Twiddleybitz 13x13 card.

Then I coloured 2 ice block sticks with Peeled Paint Distress Stain. These sticks are the basis of the interactive part of the card.

I added a strip of scrap white paper and a black brad to ONE of the sticks. 

 Now to add to the card like this ...

I hot glued one of our soccer charms and little boy with cap charms to each of the sticks.

(NOTE: Tape the right hand side strip so that the stick can only move horizontally.)

 Cut out and ink Simply Stories December Documented Bright Green Chevrons Pattern Paper slightly smaller than your base card. Attach it over the top of the sticks.

See how the sticks move the charms from side to side, something fun for my nephew.

I heat embossed my Happy Birthday Greeting with Zing Silver Metallic onto a strip of  December Documented Green Snowflake Chevron Simple Basic.

My other nephew likes outer space, so the Kaisercraft Blast Off! pattern papers were perfect for him.

Cut a circle out of the front of the 13x13 Card and cover it with Outer Rocket.

Ink around the edges with Royal Blue Versacolor.

Cut out some individual rockets and spaceships from Launch and attach randomly to the card.

Heat embossing the inside of the card with a star stamp and  some Red Glitter Zing and Blue Metallic Zing and then add in some of our Blue Metal Textured Stars and Silver Metal Textured Stars.

 (Sorry- I posted it before getting a photo of the inside, but I am sure you get the gist of it from what you can see!)

Use Geli's spinning technique for the hand-cut space ships and rockets (link here).

Don't forget when making cards like this - cover the other side of the rockets, space ships etc. with the same pattern - so that you get an image on both sides and not a paper reverse side on one side.