A Card for Elizabeth

Hi, How are you today? Here where we live in Australia we are experiencing some hot weather. Fortunately we have (to date) not been affected by any Bush Fire; although last evening, when outside you caught the strong smell of smoke on the wind. As today has progressed the weather is changing and getting subtly cooler.

Today I have a card to show you that was commissioned for a young lady called Elizabeth who is celebrating her 6th Birthday. I had lots of fun making this card.

This is a step card.
I'll show you each of the three steps in turn. I also have a video so you get to see some more of the detail too.
The base of the card was black Kaisercraft weave card stock.

This is the back part of the card. The design was inspired by an image on a bag that contained a present for Tiffany given to her a while ago.

I used scraps of card stock for the pieces I drew, cut out and stuck together.

The background card stock was from a DCWV Bright 12 x 12 Mat card Stock Pack.

A close up of the elements I drew and cut out. The bag provided me with everything I needed, almost as a template that enabled me to draw the tree, clouds, leaves, flowers, clouds, birds, bird house .....

....  grass and the mushrooms ... everything!

The middle step of the card.
I used a Kaisercraft Bling Rhinestone letter E and mixed it up with words I printed on my computer and punched out some small flowers using a Carl 1 punch.
The background paper was from a Basics 12 x 12 pad.

The first step of the card shown here with a Mo's Digital Image (waiting for the parade) coloured with a range of Copics and a sticker from October Afternoon. I hand drew the sun and cut it out; gluing it behind the sticker.








Here is a video I took that shows this card in more detail:

UPDATE:
Some of the ingredients I used to make this card:

OK that's all folks! Hope you liked the card it was a lot of fun to do as most of it I had to hand draw and cut out - reminded me of my prime school days!

Happy Birthday Fun "Tri-shutter" fold card

Hello, how are you?
It's been a very wintery day here today. I s'pose because we live on a mountain the weather has really drawn in. It is winter time here so it kind of goes with the territory (forgive the pun!). If you live across the other side of the globe you may have a warmer time of it. Mind you, you take the weather with you don't you? Meaning it can be really miserable outside but sunny on the inside.

My card today is a fun one. It is a "Tri-shutter" fold card. Let me show you . . .

The basic instructions to make the base card can be found on the Split Coast Stampers website, resources section.

I used a green coloured card-stock from my ever faithful DCWV Neutral Card stock Stack Pack.

Then all the panels were covered with patterned design paper. The selection included:

Crafters Choice Pastel Basics 120 Paper Pack

K& Company 12" x 12" Daisy Printed Embossed Paper item code: 643077 63479.

Once the panels were covered it was a question of adding all the embellishments.

On the front panel:

I used JustRite Stamp set, Topsy Turvy Cakes – CR-02230 and Memento Black Tuxedo ink pad and stamped my images onto X-press it blending card.

I coloured the cake with Prisma Color Pencils and blended the colours using the Gamsol Technique with Stumps and Gamsol. There is a video showing you how to do this, click> HERE.

I then cut and embossed my image using Spellbinders Classic Ovals Large S4-110. 

On the middle panel:

I used JustRite Stamp set, Botanical Butterflies CR-02245  and Memento Black Tuxedo ink pad and stamped my images onto X-press it blending card. I used my Prisma Color Pencils again and blended them together as before with Stumps and Gamsol.

I cut and embossed this image using Spellbinders Standard Circles LG S4-114.

Additional embellishments used were: October Afternoon SIDEWALKS Chip'n Stick Chipboard Stickers CB830, NitWit Collections – So Berry Precious Label/Tag, Hero Arts Stamps & Sizzix, Die Cut Antique Flowers & Butterflies, Martha Stewart Large Monarch Butterfly, Golden Yellow Wire Butterfly and Dragonfly from Spotlight and a Gold Peel-Off Happy Birthday sentiment.

Here is a more detailed (and visual)  list of the ingredients I used:

DCWV Neutral Mat Stack 12 x 12	Crafters choice pastel basics 120 paper pack	K&Company 12 x 12 Daisy Printed Embossed Paper Item code: 643077 63479	Copic BLENDING CARD X-Press It Paper Pack of 10	JustRite Stamps "Topsy Turvy Cakes" CR-02230
JustRite Stamp Set Botanical Butterflies - CR-02245	Prisma Color Pencils	Paper Stumps for Gamsol Technique	Gamsol for blending technique	Spellbinders Classic Ovals LG S4-110
Spellbinders Standard Circles LG, S4-114	Hero Arts Stamps & Die Cut ANTIQUE FLOWERS & BUTTERFLIES Sizzix 657773	Martha Stewart Large Monarch Butterfly:	NitWit Collections - So Berry Precious Label/Tag	October Afternoon SIDEWALKS Chip'n Stick Chipboard Stickers CB830

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So there you have it, a "Tri-shutter" fold card. One of my first and I really enjoyed making it. I'm sure I'll make more of these styles of cards now I have tried this particular fold.
Thanks for stopping by.