I have two blog posts today and this post has two cards! I doubt that has ever happened before. We are celebrating 1 year old at the
Rabisco Challenge blog and I made these two cards for my August DT inspiration.
My first one uses an image by Hetty Clare called Birthday Hat. I imported her into Silhouette Studio and sized her to fit well onto a 4.25×5.5 inch card and then printed her out onto Daler-Rowney Drawing paper. I colored her with my Prismacolor colored pencils. I loved this quirky image and decided that this girl would not wear ordinary colors, so she was clothed in pink, purple and lime green. Of course she had to have a chocolate cake (is there any other kind?).
Once she was colored, I returned her to the Silhouette and cut her out. I cut another one of her shapes out of black cardstock. I ran a black marker around the edge of the colored image and then glued it to the black cardstock version. I created a cardbase with heavyweight cardstock and ran the one side of it through my embossing machine with a polka dot Darice embossing folder. Once folded, I added the image and also the word Celebrate cut with a Spellbinders die out of black cardstock. I cut it twice and glued the two together to raise the sentiment up some.
My second card uses the
IMG587 Bestie Dolls digi from the
My Besties Shop. Again sizing her in Silhouette Studio, I added the hexagon around her. I don’t have any hexagon dies without faux stitching and I did not want stitching around her.
I printed her out on Daler-Rowney Drawing paper and colored her with my Prismacolor colored pencils. I added a little detailed frosting to the chocolate cake with a white gel pen. I then returned the image to the Silhouette and cut her out. I created a second hexagon shape by adding a 1/4 inch offset and cut that one out of textured copper cardstock from my stash.
I glued the two hexagons together, lining up the bottom of the hexagons as I wanted it to line up with the bottom of my card. I used the other half of the cardstock that made the cardbase for my first card here and also embossed it with the same Darice embossing folder. I adhered my girl to the card and then completed it with another sentiment from a Spellbinders die set cut out of the same textured copper cardstock. I also cut 2 versions in white cardstock and stacked them altogether to give my sentiment dimension on top of the embossed card front.
We would love you to pop in on our
Birthday Party Facebook Group. The party is going on all month and there will be challenges and prizes. See you there!
Supplies Used
Digital Files
Hetty Clare’s Birthday Hat digi
Sherri Baldy’s IMG587 Bestie Dolls digi
Paper
Daler-Rowney Drawing paper
Recollections 110lb heavyweight cardstock
Black and white cardstock
Textured copper cardstock
Coloring Medium
Prismacolor colored pencils
Tombow Dual Brush Pen
Uni-Ball Signo White Gel Pen
Adhesives
Aleene’s Original Tacky Glue
1/8 inch Scor-Tape
Tools
Silhouette Cameo die cutting machine
Epson Expression ET-2650 Ecotank Printer
EK Success Craft Tweezers
Miscellaneous
Martha Stewart Score Board
Darice polka dot embossing folder
Dies
Spellbinders Joyous Celebrations die set
Spellbinders Words die set
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Entered into the A bit more time to Craft Anything Goes Challenge #98
Entered into the A Perfect Time To Craft Open Anything Goes Challenge #8
Entered into the Classic Design Team August Challenge #8
Entered into the Word Art Wednesday Anything Goes Challenge #400-401
Entered into the My Besties International Anything Goes August Challenge
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Monica
Both cards are cute. I love the red haired girl and who wouldn't like that birthday cake hat. Awesome. Beautiful coloring. Love the embossing. [Bunny]`
Both great cards and love the cute images -fabulous cake hat lol
Carol x
Both projects are beautiful…now I want cake! Thank you for sharing with us over here at "A Perfect Time To Craft" and best of luck with your entry.
Kyla DT for http://aperfecttimetocraft.blogspot.com.au/
Two adorable cake cards! I need cake, especially chocolate cake, right now! The red hair is fabulous, then again I am a little biased coming from a family of redheads!! x
adorable card!! thank you for sharing your project at Besties Challenge blog!!
XoXo
Raelma
I LOVE LOVE LOVE your card
Thank you for sharing with us at My Besties International
DT Iza
I can't stop adoring the first card. Such amazing coloring …! And tights are a real work of art! They look so realistic that they take my speech away. Your work with prismacolor is stunning
Hugs,
BozenA