Showing posts with label Birthday Cards. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Birthday Cards. Show all posts

Sunday, June 26, 2022

Birthday Card


Hello Friends!

Hope you are all doing well. It rained here a little bit last night. It's good for my garden. There is nothing like rain to revive plants. 

Today I am sharing a Birthday Card. Only two colours; red and white. It is landscape oriented. I use this orientation rarely. I don't know why.

Birthday Card

I have used the Spellbinders Butterfly Corner Die. I think this was one of the first die I purchased.

I love flowers and butterflies and also intricate lace like die cuts.

The center of the red card stock was cut off and replaced with white card stock die cut. It is like inlay work. But I raised the die cut using foam dots to elevate and focus on the sentiment.

I have used Mudra Stamp. This one is one my favorites. I love the big size of the words and also the scripty line of the font. It is really elegant and classy.

Insert

I have punched out the border on both sides of the insert and used some red ink for dabbing the border.

I think though the card is simple it looks too plain and needs some improvement.

What do you think? Is it too plain and loud? Should I have added some butterflies or other embellishments? If so which colours? I would love to hear from you.

Thank you for all your love and support. Please keep supporting me.

Materials Used:
  • White Ivory Card Stock A4 size + Scrap
  • Red Card Stock
  • Spellbinders Shapeabilities Butterfly Corner Die
  • Mudra Stamps- Happy Birthday
  • Red Ink for stamping
  • White Paper Insert
  • Border Punch Medium
  • Plain White Envelope
  • Glue
  • Foam Dots 
  • Ink Blending Tool

 

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Thursday, February 10, 2022

BirthDay Card

Hello Friends!

Hope you are all doing well. Hope you are all safe and healthy.

Here the third wave of Covid has ended. The cases have gone down. We have been permitted to  return to normalcy but following the Covid appropriate behavior. So we cannot let our guard down completely. 

Educational institutions, offices and other establishment can now function normally. So slowly we can venture out but carefully.

Well we have to wait and see.

Birthday Card

Today I am sharing yet another Birthday Card.

Birthday Card

I have used textured Kraft Card Stock as base. 

Browns are one of the colours along with florescent colours which I usually avoid when making cards. This is because, we have to carefully choose the  embellishments or inks for stamping or other accessories as the colour combo is limited. 

But then I have seen some artists making amazing cards using browns or other such colours.

What do you think?

This card was very simple and easy to make. I have loads of printed paper tapes and puffy stickers lying around. So I chose to use some of them here.

Most of the material used was ready made. I had to punch the border, stamp the sentiment, dab the edges with a bit of pink and  attach it.

Insert

This is the inside of the card. Its actually pale baby pink paper which is not reflected in the image. I left the space blank for wishes which can be added just before sending.

Hope you like my work.

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I am grateful to all your love and support. Thanks a lot for taking time to like my page or leaving comments. Hope you keep on supporting me.   🙏🙏🙏


Materials Used:
  • Textured Kraft Card Stock A4 size
  • Pink handmade paper scrap
  • Border Punch
  • Pink and Blue Polka Dots Tape
  • Puffed Stickers
  • Sentiment Stamps
  • Balloon, Candle and Star Stamps
  • Black Ink
  • Blue Glitter Ink
  • Light Pink Ink
  • Colour Pencils
  • White gel Pen
  • Glue and Foam Dots
  • Baby pink paper for Insert
  • Plain White Envelope

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Tuesday, February 8, 2022

Birthday Card


Peaches and Lilacs

Hello Friends

Today I am posting a Birth Day card. I wanted to experiment with peach and lilac colours.  I think peach and lilac make great combo. What do you think?

I have some peach coloured card stock. I am always confused as to which other colours can be paired with peach colour. Can someone please suggest some colour combos?

Well here is my card:
Birthday Card

Birthday Card
If you look at my card a bit closely I have added some score lines too.
Insert
Inside of the card, I have used a plain white paper and stenciled over the same punched design with lilac ink.

Hope you like my work.

Thanks a lot for all your love and support. 

If you like my work, please subscribe to my blog, like my FB page and follow me on Insta

Materials used:
  • White Card Stock A4 size
  • Peach Coloured Card Stock ( 5 X 7.5 Inchs)
  • Lilac Coloured Card Stock Scrap
  • White Card Stock Scrap
  • Dimensional Floral Sticker
  • Flat Back Acrylic Gems (Lilac Colour)
  • Flat Back Perals
  • Sentiment Stamp
  • Lilac Coloured Ink Glue
  • Foam Dots/Squares
  • White Insert
  • Plain White Envelope
  • Score Board

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Tuesday, September 18, 2018

Birthday Card -For Kids


Hi Guys! Hope you are doing well.  

It is a bit cloudy and cool here today. I am back after a long time. After completion of festivities in the month of Sravana and also bidding audieu to our Ganesha, I am a bit free.

But with SA-I of my students just at the end of the month, I am busy with them. With lots of festivals and holidays in between their studies have suffered a lot. None of the schools have completed their portion for the exam. They too are in holiday mood. It is so difficult to get their attention back on studies. 

I am feeling mighty tired after the festivities. Moreover, every alternate day, I have to spend more than half a day for my therapy. At the end of the day, though I am getting better little by little, I feel so exhausted. 

In between all these we are either having heavy rains or summer like temperatures. This not only drains our energies, but throws our routines into chaos. Amidst all this, I am preparing notes for my students and also spending a little time on my crafts.

But I am unable to post much. There are lots I want to share with you. 

Ok enough of my ranting. Time to share something with you.

Here it is:




One more birthday card for kids. I used some of those stickers lying with me for a long time. I need to clear them off to make way for other crafty stuff. My storage space is already overflowing. 

I folded the card stock into half and first glued the blue coloured tape. Then added the stickers. Some of them are dimensional. 

Then, I punched out a circle each from dark blue and light blue card stock. I cut dark blue circle into half.

I stamped the sentiment using black ink and then glued the circles as shown above.

Simple and easy to make ready within ten minutes.

I have many other cards to post. But can't sit for long or type for long. But will try to post more often if possible.


Materials Used:

Baby pink coloured textured card stock A4 size
Self adhesive Stickers
Blue coloured Tape
Circle punch
Scraps of dark and light blue card stock
Sentiment Stamp
Black Ink
Glue



Tuesday, August 21, 2018

Birthday Card-For Kids

Hello Friends! 

Here is one more card for kids. A birthday card. 


As I told you earlier, I had loads of these stickers with me. So I used one for this card. This is very simple and easy to make. I punched out a circle from white card stock, stamped the sentiment and coloured the edges with Blushing Rose Artistry Ink and stuck it with a dimensional foam dot.


Materials Used:


  • Baby pink coloured textured card stock A4 size
  • 3D sticker of kittens
  • Purple coloured glitter tape
  • Circle punched out of white card stock
  • Blushing Rose Artistry Ink
  • Sentiment Stamp
  • Black Ink
  • Dimensional foam dot




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Tuesday, August 14, 2018

Birthday Cards For Kids


Hello there!. Hope you are all doing well.

It has been raining here almost continuously for the past one week.  Most of the time, it is heavy rain. So can't go out much. 

Here is the card I am posting which I did way back when my craft supplies were not much.
This card I remember I made in a hurry as I had not much time and had to do with those craft supplies which I could lay my hands upon in such a short time. 




Materials Used:
  • Blue colored Textured Card Stock A4 size
  • 3D Stickers
  • Yellow Paper Tape
  • Birthday Wishes Stamp
  • Brown Pigment Ink
  • Yellow and Brown Card Stock scraps
  • Sizzix Framelits Die Set - Circles, Scallop #657552
  • Adhesive Dimensional Foam Dots


Friday, June 22, 2018

Easy to make Simple Birthday Card

Hi there!

Hope you are all doing well. Its very hot and sultry here. Though, monsoon had entered India we still don't have much rainfall in my place. I am waiting for the first few showers to revamp my garden.

My new batch of students are here. We have started our classes way back in May. But because of Eid, we had very few classes. Now after the Eid, we are on with our classes, full fledged. But boy, this climate hot and humid is really a bother.

Ok, enough of my ranting now. Today I am going to post a very simple Birthday Card.


It was very simple card to make. Also I like simple and easy cards. I want the background space free and not cluttered or decked up with this and that which makes cards look very crowded and over decked. 

I folded an A4 sized Ivory card stock into half. I had some stickers with me which were gifted by a friend long back. One day, while checking on my stash, I unearthed a bunch of these stickers. So I used them along with the plaid Washi tape in pink colour to match the flowers. Then, I stamped on the sentiment using black ink. 

Well my stamping ability is almost zero. I need to experiment with it. But they are so messy. So though I have so many ideas and projects going on in my mind, I don't have the energy or time to put them into action.

One of these days, I do need to. Because, I have so many cards lying around all done, accept for stamping.

Here is the list of materials, I have used.

Materials Used:

Ivory card stock A4 size
3D Stickers of Vase and the Flower
Plaid Washi tape
Sentiment stamp
Black  Inks
Dimensional tape and glue.


So Until next time...Hope I can post frequently...


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Sunday, April 22, 2018

Birthday Card

Hi Friends!


How are you all ? Hope you are doing well.

I have been busy with my students ; the last and concluding part of the academic year. They were all writing their final exams. Now we are waiting for their results.

It is very hot here and temperatures are on the rise. I am busy with summer camps. This year I have cut down to much less time in the camps as I cannot sit for long. 

But I promised to teach in the camp run by an NGO. There are so many children participating in the camp, who come from families who cannot afford to spend money on education in private schools. Some of the children are so bright and eager to learn that it motivates all of us to teach them, interact with them and guide them. Even if they learn just one percent, we all will be happy.

I am also waiting for my next batch of students for the new academic year.

Well I have been making some cards and other small things to give away to my students. I will try to post them. Only thing is I cannot sit for long nor can I type for long.

But I am first posting those cards and other paper crafts which I made in 2016/2017 when I had only punches and other few craft tools with me.

Here is one card I made - a simple birth day card.


I have used, a off white  textured and glittered A4 size card stock folded into half as base. It is not so clear in my photo. I used purple coloured metallic card with the border design punched out using border punch. 

I added a 3D sticker of the bouquet and few stars punched out of purple and gold metallic paper, using star punch. Then added some gold coloured flat pearls in the center of the stars. I printed the sentiment stamp on to the small card stock. Since it was textured, the stamping was not clear. So I touched up with a purple glitter pen and dabbed some distress ink on to the edges of the card.


Glued some stars shapes on to the envelope as well.

Materials Used:

Off white, textured glitter card stock A4 size
Purple and Gold Metallic paper
Star Border Punch
Star Punch
Bouquet Sticker 
Sentiment Stamp and Purple Pigment Ink
Golden Turmeric Distress Ink
Purple Glitter Gel Pen
Glue and dimensional foam adhesive

This was a simple card very easy to make...Watch out for more...


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Thursday, February 23, 2017

Fairy Birthday Card

Fairies and Castle in Clouds

Yes Fairies and a Castle in the clouds - that is what one of my little friend wanted in the birthday card. So she chose the elements and I helped her make the card.

I am always making and creating things in urgency with not much time on hands to plan or think of some creative elements. So I end up creating simple and easy ones.

I used a slightly textured, baby pink card stock , A4 size as base. After folding it, I glued on the blue glitter self adhesive tape.




Then added the fairy stickers and the castle. These were self adhesive 3D stickers. I stamped the Happy Birthday sentiment using blue stamping ink onto a piece of pink card stock with rounded corners. The edges were touched up with pink stamping ink using cotton swabs. This was glued on to the card using double sided dimensional tape.




Then A bit of cotton was fluffed up and added as clouds near the castle, to give a feeling that the castle was somewhere in the skies beyond the clouds. The card was finished within half an hour under the stern supervision of the little one.

The little one's favorite colours were blue and pink -it is quite obvious from the above :) but they are my favorite colours too.

My little friend was happy and elated withe the card. Shhhhh! The card was created by the little one...I only guided her. 

Hope you too like the card.

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Monday, January 30, 2017

Cupcake Birthday Card

Hi guys. been a long time. I am battling with termites. Yes. I have lost many of my old books 😭. Most of my dolls, which I use for the Bommala Koluvu, during Sankranti were completely damaged. 

Dolls made of cloth, wood or paper or such materials were completely eaten off. Dolls made of clay or plaster of paris were damaged beyond repair. That is, they are covered with grime or tubes or trails-I don't know what to call them. I cannot wash them, as they get damaged. So I had to throw them away.

A few of the dolls made of glass or ceramics, I could wash them with a lot of hard work. But they were not damaged. So I lost much of my doll collection. Now I have still one or two trunks to clean up. I got so depressed with all the damage and grime, I put off my cleaning. 

Before I could take it up again, we were hit by demonetisation. Going around the banks for depositing and withdrawing money was a real tiring task. So or the past two months all our works stand suspended as we don't have cash to pay.  We had to struggle a lot. We had to cut off much of our spending, even for our daily needs.

Now it is getting better. But still people are wary to spend money. Market is also very dull. Hmmm...

So there it is. In between all this, we had our festivals, birthdays and anniversaries to celebrate, which could not be celebrated much because of the money factor.

OK now here is my card, which I made for my niece's best friend for her birthday. Here again, I had to make do with what I had, as market was very dull at that time and I did not have much cash in hand to spend on craft materials.



Yellow part is the background on which I placed my card for taking photograph.

Now here is what I did.

I have used white card stock and on it cupcake printed paper as back ground fot the cup cake. Here are the steps:

  • Folded the A4 size white card stock
  • Cut the cup cake patterned paper to required size 
  • Glued it to the card stock
  • Glued the sentiment printed ribbon on to the card
  • Glued the rose with the leaves on the ribbon added to the card
  • Cut the pink corrugated paper in cup shape.
  • Cut the cream coloured hand made paper in a semi circle shape(almost)
  • Cut the chocolate sauce part from the dark brown handmade paper.
  • Punched out a small cherry from dark pink metallic paper 
  • Glued the chocolate part to the cream coloured semicircle
  • Glued, the cherry on top of the chocolate
  • Glued the coloured crystals to the cake.
  • Now glued the cup to the cake part
  • Tied the pink satin ribbon to the cup-secured it with glue from under side of the cup
  • Tied the bow on the surface of the cup and glued it.
  • I attached the cup cake to the card with the help of dimensional tape to give it a raised effect
  • Finally attached the butterfly sticker on the cup cake.
It looks yummy isn't it?

Hope I have not missed out any part. I was really happy to find the sentiment printed ribbon in my stash. I am not so good with stamping yet. Especially, if I have to add a sentiment to the card. Slightest mistake can ruin it. Moreover, many of the coloured inks, don't print well. Using black may not gel with all cards. So there it is. It is one of my best cards so far....


Materials Used:
  • White card stock A4 size
  • Cupcake patterned paper
  • Dark Brown Hand made paper
  • Cream coloured Hand made paper
  • Pink metallic paper.
  • Pink corrugated paper
  • Pink satin ribbon
  • Sentiment printed Ribbon
  • Butterfly sticker
  • Rose with leaves sticker
  • Small Circle Punch
  • Coloured crystals
  • Dimensional tape and glue


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Wednesday, July 13, 2016

Sunflower Birthday Card

Here is one more birthday card. The theme is sunflower, for sending some sunshine during this monsoon.



I have chosen, cream coloured shimmery card stock as base. I attached the self adhesive black and silver tape. Then I attached the sunflower dimensional sticker.

I added a few butterflies to make it more colourful. 

Then I stamped out the sentiment on a punched out circle from yellow hand made paper. I coloured the edge with yellow and orange pencils to match the sunflower and attached it with double sided foam tape to give it dimension.

This is very easy and simple to make.

Materials Used:

Cream coloured shimmery handmade paper
Black and Silver self adhesive tape
3D Sunflower Dimensional sticker
Butterfly Stickers
Yellow coloured hand made paper
Circle Punch
Sentiment Stamp
Black Ink
Yellow and Orange colour Pencils

Hope You like It

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Wednesday, June 15, 2016

Birthday Cards for Kids

Hi Friends.

Back after nearly a fortnight. I have been busy with my new batch of students. It will take me till the end of the month to settle everything into a rhythm. After a long period of holidays, children will take time to settle down. I also need to work out a schedule and stick to it.

In between I had to attend to my dad's annual ceremony. A few days before and few days after it we have had a lot to do. It is really back breaking with all the work. But then rituals are strictly to be adhered to. 

Here it is hot once again. No rains. Humidity is really unbearable. So I could not spend much time on my crafts. But one of my friends wanted a birthday card for a little one. I had just 4-5 days and with my dad's ceremony in between it was really difficult to create something which would catch  the eye of the child, its parents and the sender(my friend). 

I did manage somehow to make this card. Then I had to mail it to reach on time.

This was what I came up with. 

I used a textured blue card stock, attached some stickers of animals. 

For the tree, I cut brown coloured thin hand made paper for the trunk and glued it. Then I punched out some oval shaped green textured hand made paper for the foliage. I attached some self adhesive red crystals as fruit on the ovals. 

The first layer I glued it directly on the card. The upper layers, I used foam tape for dimension. 

I punched out some green coloured thin card stock for grass and glued it near the base of the tree. 

The sentiment was stamped on thin yellow card stock. I then shaped the edges with a bracket punch. Then I used a brown coloured sharpie to colour the edges of the sentiment as well as the tab, before attaching it to the card. 

This is the inside of the card. I added the sentiment, message and balloons and the cake. I got it printed on a cream coloured papaer and glued a heart shaped puffy sticker.
This is the envelope. I had to use a ready made white one. 

I had some anxious moments when I was pushing the card inside it. I wanted to make a box type envelope to fit the dimensional stickers and punch art I used without squashing them. I didn't have time at all. Moreover, I am not experienced enough in making such envelopes. I didn't even have proper tools or materials to make one. 

Thank God! The Card fit the envelope :) With not much space around it. I attached mini and mickey stickers on the outside. I wanted to stamp it but no time at all.

I couldn't do much as there was no time to even think or shop for material. I had to do with what I had at hand.

I mailed the card and it reached on time. I got a feed back that they all loved it. So everything ended well. Hope you like it too....

Materials used:

Blue textured card stock
Yellow card stock
Green card stock
Green textured hand made paper
Dark brown hand made paper
Animal and cartoon stickers
Red coloured acrylic self adhesive crystals
Clear stamp for sentiment
Black ink for stamping
Brown coloured sharpie
Glue
Envelope
Cream coloured thick paper for inside the card



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Sunday, May 29, 2016

Birthday Card

Here is one more birthday card. I am making these cards in advance and keeping them ready. Once the schools an colleges start, I will be busy with my students once again. I have to be prepared for many birthdays and other occasions now. 



Okay, now about this card- I used a cream coloured textured card stock as base.This is one layered simple fold card. I used blue glitter tape and cartoon sticker. I think they are Cinderella and Snow White. 

I made this card with a little girl in my mind. I think she may like the card with these characters. I also kept the card very simple. I don't think children may like too much fancy card. I will print out the message and attach it just before I give away the card. So I kept it blank inside.

Actually I made this card some time ago. I had very few sentiment stamps. Recently I bought some sentiment stamps. So I had to try them out.  

I stamped the "May all your dreams come true" in rainbow colours (I believe that dreams are always colourful) and Happy Birthday in blue colour. 

But since it was a textured card, the stamping was fuzzy in some places. I touched up with colour pens. Matching the right colour was a problem. But in the end I did my best.

Then I attached the crystals and pearls underneath the sentiments.

There it is. My card is ready. 

I have to make the envelopes- for many cards. I am putting it of as I am not able to find matching stationery to make them. May be I will have to settle for white in the end?

Any idea which paper to use for that? 


Materials used:

Textured cream coloured card stock
Cartoon Sticker
Blue glitter self adhesive tape
Multi coloured and Blue coloured Inks 
Self adhesive crystals/faux pearls
Sentiment Stamps



I am also making other cards and keeping them ready. I will be posting them in my future posts.



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Wednesday, May 11, 2016

Easy Peasy Card


I was away for long. Sorry for that. amidst the hot temperatures and water scarcity, we have had thunder storms in the past few days. Moderate rains did help my plants and the temperatures are down a bit. The power lines were down for some time. So we had no electricity for long hours during the past few days. When ever the storm is on they cut power for safety sake. If that happens during night time or early morning hours then it takes some time for power restoration. That is why I couldn't post.

Here is one more card. This one is a birthday card.


The base you see is a dark pink pearl-marble hand made paper. I think I got that correctly. It has a pearl sheen and also marble affect. It is hand made paper. 

The top fold is about one inch less than the bottom fold. I don't think it is clear from the picture. I don't know what this fold is known as. Does any one know?

I first stuck the black printed tape. Both on the top and the bottom folds. It looked so apt.

After that I did not know what to do. None of the papers or other material seemed to match the card. 

Ultimately I used a small rectangular piece of black hand made paper as a layer. Stuck to the base with glue. The picture stickers-I used foam tape to give them a little dimension. Added the four self adhesive white stickers to the four corners.Then I stuck the sentiments.

In all it took me just a few minutes to make this card. So what do you think?


Materials used:

Dark pink (pearl) marble handmade Paper
Black printed Tape
Black hand made paper
Sentiment and Picture Stickers
White self adhesive crystals
Foam tape
Glue

Your comments/suggestions and thoughts mean a lot to me......Please do take some time to comment on these post as I am still in learning stage and welcome your suggestions.



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