This batch of cards was lots of fun to make! It took me several days worth of crafting to get them done and I am so happy with how they turned out. I have certainly built up my birthday card stash and I have a set of cards to give away! :)
I used a card design that I have made several times, but I used slightly different supplies to give it a twist. Here are a set of cards I made using washi tape.
I made this batch of cards using scraps of coloured card stock for my candles. I started by pulling out each colour folder and sifting through them to find suitably sized scraps. I looked for thin rectangles or pieces that I didn't think I could use for anything else. I pulled out odd shapes of card stock too. This took a while, but was easy enough. I made a pile for each colour and then started cutting them into rectangles that were about a quarter inch thick and about 2 and half to 3 inches long. I didn't measure them exactly, I just popped it in my guillotine trimmer and just moved my card stock along, to cut each piece. Now I had several piles of coloured strips. I then pulled out my embossing folders and chose ones with fun patterns, like a polka dot, chevrons, thick stripes and some shapes. I put a variety of different colours into each folder and ran them through my die cutting machine using an embossing sandwich.
Next I made the flames for the candles. I stamped a whole bunch of the leaf stamps from Eva's Favourite Flowers (by Winnie and Walter), using yellow and orange inks. I tried die cutting these, but the shape wasn't quite right, so I ended up fussy cutting them roughly to make them more flame like. I also tried cutting some flame shapes from orange cardstock which I used on one of the cards, but I liked the stamped ones better.
I die cut some Happy Birthday's and stamped some Birthday sentiments in different colours and I was ready to start assembling my cards. I laid out some card panels and then arranged the 'candles' on each one. I started out creating a rainbow of candles on each card, and I tried to use a variety of patterns on each card. As I had more of some colours than others, I decided to make some cards with different shades of the same colour, and making some masculine colours on one card and feminine colours on others. This was fun.
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While most of my cards were landscape, I decided I wanted to try a few portrait orientation as well. Using liquid medium matte, I started adhering the candles and added the flames to the top of each one, all glued directly to the card panel. I added stamped sentiments to the cards using foam tape. If using a die cut sentiment, I stacked them two or three high. I added clear Wink of Stellar shimmer to the flames of each candle too. Finally, I used some sequins and stickers to some of them for some final embellishment.
Phew, when starting this set of cards, I was quite ambitious. I think if I decided to make more cards like this, I would probably make fewer cards at a time. The design has a lot of steps, so 10 was a bit much. Anyway, I hope you feel inspired to pull out your scraps and make some fun cards.
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