Window Birthday Card

 

Use Stampin Up's Welcoming Window stamp and die set to create this card

This week I needed to make a birthday card for a male member of our family - I find male cards so difficult to make. He likes gardening and often potters in his garden, which made me think of the Welcoming Window stamp set by Stampin Up. The main feature of the stamp and die set is a window but you can decorate it up with a window box, pots and plants.

I started making it in beige and brown colours but just wasn't very happy with the colour combination. I changed to a grey tone and I am really pleased with the end result.

Follow the below link to find out how the card was made

You will need

• Welcoming Window stamp set by Stampin Up
• Window Flower Box dies set by Stampin Up
• Brick and Mortar 3D Embossing Folder by Stampin Up
• Happy Birthday greeting stamp (I used one from Little Ladybug stamp set by Stampin Up)
• Rectangular die to cut around your greeting (mine measured 5 . 5 cm by 2 cm)
• Versamark ink pad
• Pink, green and terracotta coloured ink pads (I used ink pads from Stampin Up - rose red, mossy meadow and cajun craze)
• White embossing powder (I used Wow! opaque bright white super fine embossing powder)
• Heat gun
• Light grey, dark grey, black and white card
• Small amount of patterned paper (I used a piece of stripe paper from Peaceful Poppies designer paper by Stamping Up)
• 6 inch Square white base card
• Die cutting machine
• Stamping aid (I use Stamparatus by Stampin Up)
• Glue, double sided tape and double sided foam pads
• Guillotine with cutting blade

1. Die cut the following:
   from dark grey card cut an arched window and two shutters
   from black cut 4 hinges and a window box
   
   
   


2. Cut a 13 . 5 cm square from dark grey card and a 13 cm square from the light grey card


3. Run the light grey card in the brick embossing folder through your die cutting machine. (If you do not have a brick embossing folder, you could use the brick stamp within the set to stamp some bricks across the light grey card using a darker coloured grey ink pad)
   
   
   


4. Glue the light grey embossed square centrally onto the dark grey square
   
   
   


5. Use the arched window die to cut out a window from the grey card square. Slightly above centre but but equal distance left and right - see below photo
   
   
   
   
   
   


6. Cut a 4 cm square from the patterned paper - this will be the blind in the window


7. Put a little bit of tape or glue along the top of the patterned square on the patterned side you wish to show from the window
   
   
   


8. Turn the grey square over so the back is facing upwards.  Glue the blind above the window so that the lower edge of the blind is about half way down the window gap

   

   (I placed the arch window in the gap just so I could line the blind up so it was half way down the window.  The arched window isn't glued in at this point)

   
   

   

   This is how the blind looks from the front of the card

   
   


9. Turn the grey square over again and remove the arched window


10. Glue the grey square centrally onto the white base card
    
    
    


11. Glue the arched window in place
    
    
    


12. Glue the hinges to the shutters as per the below photo
    
    
    


13. Put a line of glue along the shorter long edge and foam pads along the longer long edge (see the below photo) then glue next to the window on the front of the card. (The foam pads will make the shutters look like they are flapping slightly open)
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    


14. Stamp the largest flower pot onto white card using the terracotta coloured ink pad and die cut out


15. Stamp the two different flower bushes onto white card. They are made with two different stamps. Stamp the green leaves first, then line up the flower part and stamp using the pink ink pad - see the below photo's. I use the stamping aid to keep everything in place whilst stamping these two part stamps
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    


16. Die cut out the flower bushes


17. Glue the window box just below the window and the flower pot to the bottom left of the card


18. Use foam pads to attach the two flower bushes - one onto the top of the flower pot and the other onto the window box


19. On a piece of dark grey card, stamp your greeting using Versamark ink pad


20. Sprinkle white embossing powder over the greeting. Knock of the excess onto scrap paper and return it to the pot. Use a clean dry paint brush to knock off any surplus embossing powder that doesn't form part of the greeting (see the below photos).

    

    You can see some loose powder around the greeting

    
    

    

    Knock the surplus off with a dry brush

    
    

    

    Use the glue gun to melt the powder

    
    


21. Use the heat gun across the powder on the greeting until it turns solid


22. Use a rectangular die to cut out the greeting and attach using double sided foam pads to the bottom right of the card