Hello Crafters,
By following today's card tutorial, you can create this pretty birthday card with filigree flowers, a large sentiment panel, and a gorgeous swirly background. Keeping to a delicate blue colourway and using an array of dies and stamps from Chloe's Creative Cards, this is definitely a design that will take pride in anyone's home.
Read on for a full step-by-step project tutorial, complete with a materials list that has been linked so you can click on each product to be sent to its respective web page, making it easy for you to shop.
YOU WILL NEED:
- Die and stamp sets – Beautiful Butterfly Frame and Fabulous Floral Frame
- Die sets – Elegant Flower, Stamen, and Leafy Foliage
- Nesting die set – 5x7” Decorative Ovals
- Pearl card – Crystal White and Aquamarine
- Mirror card – Aquamarine
- 8x8” decorative paper pad – Fabulous Florals and Flutters
- Sparkelicious glitter – Crystal Crush
- WOW! embossing powder – Metallic Silver Sparkle
- Sparklers – 12mm
- Self-adhesive Sparkles – Beautiful Blues
- Floral sequins – Iridescent
- WOW! clear embossing inkpad
- Foam pads on a roll
- Chisel-tip glue pen
- Pinflair 3D glue gel
- Art Glitter dries-clear glue with a fine-tip applicator
- 8x8” white straight-edged card blank
- WOW! heat tool
- Die-cutting machine
INSTRUCTIONS:
1 Trim a sheet of Aquamarine mirror card to 7¾” square and affix to the card using dries-clear glue. Trim a sheet of Aquamarine pearl card to 7½” square and edge with a chisel-tip glue pen, then cover in Crystal Crush Sparkelicious glitter. Affix to the card using foam pads. Trim a sheet of patterned paper to 7¼” square and affix to the card using foam pads. Trim Crystal white pearl card to 6¾” square and edge with Crystal Crush Sparkelicious glitter. Affix to the card using foam pads.
2 Create a 6½” square panel from Aquamarine pearl card and stamp out the delicate swirls background twice using a clear embossing inkpad, lining the image up in the centre. Heat-emboss using Metallic Silver Sparkle embossing powder. Edge with Crystal Crush Sparkelicious glitter, then, once dry, affix to the card using foam pads.
3 Die-cut an oval from Crystal White pearl card and edge with Crystal Crush Sparkelicious glitter. Affix to the card using foam pads. Die-cut a decorative oval from Aquamarine pearl card and affix to the card using dries-clear glue. Die-cut a smaller oval from Crystal White pearl card. Take the sentiment from the Beautiful Butterflies Frame set and stamp into the centre of the oval using a clear embossing inkpad. Heat-emboss using Metallic Silver Sparkle embossing powder. Edge the oval in Crystal Crush Sparkelicious glitter, then affix to the card using foam pads.
4 Die-cut two large and four medium plain flowers from Crystal White pearl card. Die-cut two large and four medium filagree flowers, cover with a chisel-tip glue pen and then sprinkle Crystal Crush Sparkelicious glitter over. Shape by creating a valley fold down the centre and layer to form dimensional flowers. Affix to the card using glue gel. Die-cut three stamens from Aquamarine mirror card and add to the centres of the flowers, then add a Sparkler to each.
5 Die-cut some leafy foliage from Crystal White pearl card and affix behind the flowers using 3D glue gel. Die-cut some foliage from the Fabulous Floral Frame set using Aquamarine mirror card. Tuck these in behind the flowers using 3D glue gel. Add a few floral sequins to the background using 3D glue gel, then add a self-adhesive sparkle to the centre of each to finish.
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Chloe x
