Hi Geli here today celebrating Birthday Month at my2angels using the
(which is currently 10% off until 20th August)
The whole Let's Celebrate range reminded me of a high tea party (not that I ever have any of those, but YOU might), so I decided to make a little party set with an invitation, name holder and a birthday card.
Here’s how to make a standing-up invitation that can be mailed flat.
You will need:
- 2 pieces of cardstock: 4x4” and 4x8”,
- 2 pieces of the Wrapping paper both 3 ¾ x 3 ¾”,
- a punched border strip 4” long
- and 2 decorated panels from the “You’re invited” paper
I used a sweet little cupcake charm, which I painted first and a cupcake from “Sweets & Treats”
Fold the larger piece of cardstock in half and fold one half in half again, like this:
Glue the smaller piece of cardstock on that like shown:
And add the decorated panel
That’ll be the front of your card. On the inside glue on the 2nd panel like this:
But tuck in the punched border under the panel. It will keep the front of the card standing up.
Done!
Talking about High Tea, you will need name tags to seat all your “distinguished guests”
“We” might not be amused, but your friends will get a kick out of this: You use a toilet paper roll for a base. Shocking, I know.
You will need a 1 ½” section of a toilet paper roll and half a strip of “perfectly pleated cardstock”. I inked the top edge a little and glued it around the toilet paper roll.
If you want, cover the inside with a strip of paper, so the in-laws don’t find out our little secret. Next, add some velvet ribbon to the bottom edge and cut out a cupcake. Emboss a chipboard balloon (without the string) with embossing powder (I gave mine 3 coats to make it nice and shiny). Take a length of wire and wind it around a pencil like this:
Gently slide it off and sticky-tape one end behind the cupcake and the other behind the balloon. Cover the back of the balloon with some scrap paper.
Using some strong glue attach the cupcake with the wire to the ring and use a high-tech cloth peg to hold it in place till it’s dry.
Add a name and you’re done. This might look like a lot of steps for a small decoration but if you do these in production-line style you’ll be done with a dozen in no time.
And last I made a birthday card.
Tracy embossed some acetate with the Cuttlebug birthday embossing folder and look how awesome this turned out! I decided this didn’t need a lot more, so here are the bits I have added:
- some glimmer misted cardstock underneath (darker colours show the embossing best),
- some more cupcakes
- a velvet ribbon
- a rhinestone circle
- and a birthday chipboard word covered in German glitter glass
Have fun celebrating!
Geli
Hi everyone Tracy here,
not with Birthday layouts but the layouts I taught at Scraphappy's Retreat back in July
Here is my Friday night class where the ladies played with the Tim Holtz Blending Tool, using a resist technique on chipboard gates and created a layered border with pattern paper, gold chain and lace
Our chipboard title coloured by using Tim Holtz Distress Stains and a "finger wipe" of gold stickles
Chipboard again coloured with Tim Holtz Distress Stains and using our gorgeous brown gardenias with resin flowers
Our chipboard gates with charms, roses, stemmed flowers and (as always with my layouts) charms
My Saturday night class was quite a different type of layout from Friday night where we used a pizza box to create a woodgrain effect, to match the Prima papers (using the opposite side of the pattern paper ... take a look next time on the opposite side of your double sided pp as they sometimes can be a subtle pattern which is great to use instead of cardstock as your base)
Cut very thin stripes of the pizza box (around 2mm) and turn on its side then attach in strips with double sided tape to create the woodgrain effect
then adding our leaf charms with green bakers twine
We also added a few lizard charms eating their way through the pattern paper
and the title is Scrapware Correboard Letters
Scrapware Trees covered with Peeled Paint Crackle Paint and of course charms ... our trees and snails
There are a couple of A day in the Park kits left
if you would like one please email me via the website here
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