Glittery Birthday Card

Where is the week going?  For some reason I’ve been finding that for the last month or so, time has been just flying. I’m sure it probably has to do with the end of the school year rush – there’s just so many things going on at the kid’s school and so many things that need to be prepped for the summer.  I’ve been finding it a real struggle to fit in stamping time.  Normally, when I’m stamping every day, coming up with new creations is a breeze because I’m “in the mode”.  At times like this when I am stamping more sporadically, each card is more of a struggle.  it just doesn’t want to come together as easily.

Today’s card was inspired by a card I saw in the Paper Crafts Card Creations magazine volume 8.  There was a birthday card with a glittery border which I just loved.  Since it wasn’t a technique I’d ever tried before I decided to give it a go.  I was amazed at how easy it was.

Here’s how I made the card:

1. Cut a piece of Whisper White CS that is 1 3/4″ x 5 1/4″.  With the 1 3/4″ side aligned with the top of your paper cutter, use your scoring blade to dry emboss a raised line at 1/2″ and then just slightly bigger than 3/4″.
2. Place a strip of Sticky Strip in between the two embossed lines. Run your embossing buddy along either side of the Sticky Strip.  This will make it easier to brush off stray glitter.
3. Peel back just a small amount of the red backing from the Sticky Strip and sprinkle on your first color of glitter.  Tap of the excess.  Peel back a little more of the red backing and then sprinkle on the second color of glitter.  Tap off the excess.  Continue until you’ve added as many colors of glitter as desired.
4. Brush off the excess with a soft-bristled brush.
5. Using a Stamp-a-ma-jig and Basic Black Classic ink, stamp the greeting from the “Heard from the Heart” stamp set just above the glitter towards the right edge of the CS. Set aside for a moment.
6. Take a 2″ x 5 1/4″ piece of Certainly Celery CS and scallop one 5 1/4″ edge with the Scallop Edge punch.  Pierce a hole in the center of each scallop. 
7. Stick the Whisper White CS piece with the glitter to the scalloped CS leaving only the scallops showing. Make sure that the scallops are along the TOP of the Whisper White CS piece.
8. Center and stick a 4 1/8″ x 5 3/8″ piece of Certainly Celery CS to a 4 1/4″ x 5 1/2″ Tempting Turquoise card (created by taking a 4 1/4″ x 11″ piece of Tempting Turquoise CS and folding it in half using a bone folder).
9. Center and stick a 2 1/2″ x 4″ piece of Tropical Party DP (the Turquoise with the white Polka Dots) along the top of the Certainly Celery CS piece.
10. Center and stick the Whisper White CS with the Scalloped Certainly Celery CS piece along the bottom of the Certainly Celery CS. Make sure the scallops are facing upwards.
11. Stamp the cone from the Sweet Scoops stamp set onto a scrap of Whisper White CS using Creamy Caramel Classic ink.  Cut it out with paper snips leaving a small white border.  Stick it to the Whisper White CS piece, to the left of the greeting with 2-way glue.
12. Ink up the ice cream scoop stamp in Pretty in Pink Classic ink.  Ink up the stamp with the stripes in Rose Red Classic ink.  Stamp the ice cream scoop onto the lines and then stamp it onto a scrap of Whisper White CS.  Cut it out leaving a small white border around.
13. Stick the ice cream scoop on top of the cone using Stampin’ Dimensionals.  You’re done!

I had a question in the comments section of the last post asking whether we would be continuing to provide pdf’s of the projects.  At the moment, I think my answer is probably not.  The reason has to do with search engines and how they work.  When you type in a search term in google (or another search engine), it looks for occurences of that search term on websites/blogs/etc, and then presents you with links to sites it thinks are relevant to your search. If instead of posting the directions to the project in my blog, I simply create a pdf for it, the content of the pdf does not get “found” by search engines in the same way as it does when it is in the post itself.  So, by keeping our content in the posts themselves, it continues to keep our site “relevant” to search engines and makes sure we get found when people query things that we may have talked about.  Make sense?

Anyways, I hope you enjoyed today’s project!