Sunday, May 2, 2010

Card Making: Happy Birthday!

When I received this sweet "Tilda with 3 flowers" I knew I had to use it right away, it is so cute! So I made a happy birthday card for a friend, but since this is my first sitting Tilda, I had to think a little about where she would sit on!LOL!
So, being spring and all, I decided to put her on a tree branch! This is how:
First of all, I used green cardstock for the card base and stamped on it with Versamark and a folliage stamp. Then I heat embossed it with a clear but sparkly embossing powder and then colored the lot with distress inks in various shades of green. Then I wiped the lot with a lightly humid paper towel, so as to reveal the stamped leaves.
Next step was to make the branches, so I cut them freehand from a brown cardstock piece, did some sanding, inking, etc and adhered it on the card. The result was ok but a little flat, so I started punching some leaves using the Martha Stewart Oak Leaf punch, and adhered them in bunches using foam squares.
Then I thought that I should add some tiny flowers and decided to make them myself using a technique that I see everywhere and lately in Scrapbooking in Greece as well. The result was ok, but I decided to enhance it using some UTEE on the petals for a little gloss, I also added a blob of glue in the centre and added some Martha Stewart microbeads.
Then I added the little birds, I cut them from a Cosmo Cricket leftover paper, I think it is quite a cute detail!
Next step, I positioned the Tilda after coloring her with my copics, I chose pink for her outfit because I really wanted her to pop inside all this green!
At this point I thought the card was ready, but then decided to add the Happy Birthday banner, so I colored pink a piece of ribbon and wrote the Happy Birthday on it with a white pen, added some flowers and leaves and...ready! I went wild once more while making this, but it was so much fun!

7 comments:

  1. Κωνσταντίνα, είναι απλά ΤΕΛΕΙΟ!! Δεν έχω λόγια...

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  2. Eιναι ΚΑΤΑΠΛΗΚΤΙΚΗ!!!!!!!Μπραβο Κωνσταντινα!!

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  3. you have mastered the flowers they are magnificent.....

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  4. δεν είναι απλά μια κάρτα...είναι ολόκληρο έργο!

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  5. Είναι αριστούργημα!!! χίλια μπράβο σου!!!

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  6. Konstantina this card is beautiful! your attention to detail is amazing ,I love it when you go wild!

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