Graceful Pink Birthday card

Hello again bloggers

Sorry its been a while but I've had a busy couple of weeks, hopefully I'm back on track now.

Today's card is one very similar to one made at Phill Martin's fantastic Craftathon a few of weeks ago.

Shopping List

8x8 card blank

White card stock

Phill Martin's Graceful butterfly's paper pad

Phill Martin's graceful pink mica powder

Phill Martin's graceful pink sparkle texture paste

Phill Martin's graceful pink pva glue

Phill Martin's graceful pink twinkles

Phill Martin's graceful pink gilding wax

Phill Martin's scribbled sentiments stamp

Phill Martin's elegant relatives stamps

Sue Wilson's double pierced squares 

Sue Wilson's Scandinavian collection corner border and tag

Sue Wilson's Dainty rectangular frame

Sue Wilson's orange blossom complete petals 

Spellbinders butterflies

Creative expressions embossing folder - rambling blossom

Mask with a small design

Cosmic shimmer detail grey embossing powder

Cosmic shimmer glitter jewels- iced snow

Blimey that seems a lot - 

Anyway cracking on

Firstly I cut a piece of white card stock, 1/2 cm smaller than the card blank and gilded around the edges with the gilding wax, just rubbing the wax in smaller circular movements with my finger.

This was then stuck to the card blank. Next another pice of white card was cut using the pierced dies, about 1/2 cm smaller than the gilded card and layered on to the card.

I then chose a sheet of Phill's paper and cut this 1/2 cm smaller than the pierced square and stuck this to the card.

I then cut a strip of white card to go down the middle of the card, embossed it with the embossing folder and after cutting Scandinavian border die out and carefully cutting it in half lengthwise glued it to the side edges of the embossed strip. This was then attached to the middle of the card using foam pads.

I then cut the dainty rectangular frame and insert and using a mask with a small cross applied some glitter plaster to the insert and allowed it to dry. The frame and insert were then stuck together flat, and then the whole thing onto the card with foam pads.

I then took a piece of white card wide enough to to fit the sentiment that I wanted and long enough to fit across the card allowing extra length for it to curve in the middle. I cut the ends into a V shape and stamped the sentiments with perfect medium and heat embossed it with the silver detail embossing powder. This was then edged with the cosmic shimmer glue and dipped in the iced snow before leaving to dry before sticking to the card at each side making sure that this bowed slightly in the middle.

Finishing touches - I cut several of the lovely new orange blossom flowers and then using a few drops of water and some of the mica powder mixed these together to make a paint, and painted the centre of the flowers, flicking out towards the petal edges. Once dry I shaped the flowers and a couple of the larger ones were layered together and then all the flowers were added to the card in quite a random way.

I then cut a butterfly from a scrap of Phill's paper pad and stuck this to the card.

I edged the centre frame with some twinkles and also added the twinkles to the centre of the flowers.

Finally, using some of the pva glue I added small dots down the side of the Scandinavian border.

Yippee all done.

Happy Crafting

love 

Alison