Border cards

 

I show you two different ways to use border stamps to create greeting cards

Border stamps are quite versatile so this weeks blog I have used them to make a border for a card and also as a background. I've used Borders to Backgrounds by Stampin Up but you can use any long border stamps that you have to create a similar effect. For example if you've got long lacy stamps such as Delicate Details by Stampin Up or maybe a greeting stamp that is straight and long.

I have made two different cards this week and you may not have the stamps I have used but it will give you an example that you can change to incorporate stamps that you do have. For example, the card with Happy Birthday bunting can be changed to have a greeting stamped across the front or use a peel off greeting. Likewise, the cat birthday card uses a cat stamp that I got from the front of a magazine and this could be replaced with any stamp whether it be a flower or another character for example.

Follow the below link to find out how the cards were made

You will need

• Silver, red and white A4 card
• Borders to Backgrounds stamp set by Stampin Up
• Blue, yellow, pink, purple, red and black ink pads (The black ink pad came from The Range, the coloured ink pads were by Stampin up - island indigo, crushed curry, rose red, perfect plum and cherry cobbler)
• Versamark ink pad
• Happy Birthday bunting die (If you dont have these you can use a greeting die, peel offs or a stamp instead)
• Cat character stamp with birthday greeting (Mine came from the front of a magazine but you can use any stamps you have)
• Colouring medium of your choice for cat card (I use promarkers - cool grey 2 and 4, ruby, honeycomb, pale pink, mustard, sandstone and ivory)
• Glue and double sided foam pads
• Guillotine with cutting and scoring blades
• Stamping aid (I used Stamparatus but you can use other brands such as Misti)
• Die cutting machine
• Washi tape
• Scrap paper

Happy Birthday Bunting Card:

1. I used the border stamps to make the background for this card. Cut a piece of white card to 16 cm tall by 9 . 5 cm wide. Stick it top and bottom with washi tape to some scrap paper making sure you don't cover the card up too much with the washi tape. (The scrap paper will protect your surface from the over hang of the stamps)
   
   
   


2. Ink the stripe stamp up with green ink and stamp it across the top of the white card. Stamp it immediately again (Without re-inking) just below the first row. So you will now have two rows of green stripes
   
   
   


3. Stamp the other border stamps using different coloured inks below the striped line.  Stamp one after you have inked the stamp and then again immediately below without re inking it. You will therefore get two stripes of each border stamp, one darker than the other
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   


4. Trim 1 cm from the top and bottom of this piece of card so you now have a stripy background measuring 9 . 5 cm wide by 14 cm tall.


5. Cut an A4 piece of silver card in half and then fold it in half to form a base card. Glue the stripy background card to the centre of the silver base card
   
   
   


6. Die cut the Happy Birthday bunting out of silver card and attach to the base card using foam pads
   
   
   
   
   
   

Cat Birthday card:


1. Cut a piece of red A4 card to 14 . 8 cm high by 29 . 8 cm. Fold in half to create a square base card


2. Put the base card into your stamping aid and align the striped background stamp to the bottom edge with the end matching the far left
   
   
   


3. Pick the stamp up with the tab plate of your stamping aid, ink it with the versamark ink pad and stamp onto the base card


4. Turn your card within the stamping aid anti-clockwise. Re ink the stamp and stamp again
   
   
   


5. Repeat until you have stamped each edge of the base card
   
   
   


6. Cut a piece of white card to 10 cm square


7. Put a piece of scrap paper into your stamping aid then white card, lining it up with the second hinge (see red arrow) along the top as shown in the below photo. Line up the striped background stamp with the bottom edge of the white square and so it meets the right edge
   
   
   


8. Ink the stamp with the red ink pad and stamp onto your card


9. Rotate your white square of card but this time line it up with half way along the first hinge (see the red arrow) on the top of the Stamparatus (see the below photo). Re ink the stamp and stamp again
   
   
   


10. Repeat the above step once more to stamp stripes along the third edge


11. Rotate the square one more time but this time you don't ink the whole striped stamp. If you move the tab with the stamp on over to the stamping area but do not let it touch your card, you will see that you only need to stamp part of the stripe as otherwise it will cover a stripe you have already stamped. Make note of the area of stamp you do not want to use and cover it in washi tape. Ink the rest of the stripe, remove the washi tape and stamp onto the square
    
    
    
    
    
    


12. Line the cat and greeting stamps within the centre of the white square and stamp the images with black ink
    
    
    


13. Colour in your stamped images


14. Attach the square to the base card using double sided foam pads
    
    
    

If you have any straight thin-ish stamps, you can use them in a similar way to create backgrounds or borders.