3D Decoupage Dog in Cake

 

How to turn a digital stamp into a 3d decoupage image for a birthday card

I will show you in this blog how to turn one image into 4 images and then how to turn them into a 3D image for a birthday card.

I've used a digital image of a dog bursting out of a birthday cake that I bought from LOTV (you can get it here), however you could use a block or clear cling stamp and just stamp it 4 times ontop a piece of white card.

My digital stamp was an outline image but you can get pre-coloured images from LOTV if you do not fancy colouring in.

The hardest part of this card is knowing what part of the image you wish to layer. Just play around with your image - you need to get the parts of the image that are closest to you as the top last layers. As you are printing these images (or stamping them) yourself, you can always re-print them if you weren't happy with your first attempt. There is no real right or wrong, just go with what looks appealing to yourself.

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Diagonal Happy BIrthday

 

A simple birthday card that is made beautiful by the use of pretty paper

We all have such busy lives, so I really like a simple greeting card. Although this card is really quite simple, it still looks really effective with the use of beautiful paper and having a bold Happy birthday banner on a slant.

This card can easily be changed for other occasions - why not make a child's card using a colouring book image for the top patterned paper piece.  Or an invite by using a calendar image and then circling the date in question

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Banner Birthday Card

 

This is a great card to use up small amounts of patterned card or paper

I'm playing with my new toy - a banner punch today to use up scraps of patterned card to make quite a simple birthday card.

I used the banner punch to cut out the triangles in the bottom of each bunting flag. I used to do this with my scissors and just eyeing up whether I got the right angle on my cuts, but this punch is so much easier!

I don't know about you, but I hang on to all scraps of pretty card and paper and it's lovely to use up these small pieces. For this card, you only need pieces maximum 1 inch wide and 2 inches long.

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Balloons Birthday Card

 

Use a die to cut out shapes and show some pretty paper through them to make this wonderful birthday card

I've used two different shaped birthday balloon dies to make windows on plain card for some pretty patterned paper to show through. 

 This is a really easy card to make and can be adapted quickly by using different shaped dies such as stars, flowers or butterflies. Just remember you will only be left with the outline of the image so try to choose a fairly simple shaped die.

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Money Box

 

Create a money box from card and decorate to inspire saving for your goals

As it's the start of a new year, we often make resolutions or our thoughts just turn to having a great year. So why not make a money box to save for a particular event or occasion or maybe just for a rainy day? You could give the money box away as a gift with a few coins in to start the recipient off on their savings for something particular.

I've made mine to remind me of the summer and my love of going to the beach, having ice creams and cups of tea. I'm going to save my odd pennies for trips to the beach :)

I've used the Bakers Box Thinlits die set by Stampin Up as it can be tied at the top so you can get your coins out just by un-tying the ribbon. However if you have a different type of box die such as a milk carton, I am sure you can adjust it in a similar way to create your money box. Like all my blog pages, I am hopping this will inspire you to use what you have. I have made a window in the back of the money box (by cutting out a rectangle and covering it with acetate) so you can see your collection growing, however you can ignore this and just have a solid money box if you would prefer.

The bakers box die doesn't make a tall enough box for what I needed.  So I will show you how to cut the top and bottom of the die and therefore making the middle section bigger.    

I've made mine out of patterned paper and then went on to decorate it further. You could make yours out of plain card and then embellish it. It can be adapted for so many occasions such as saving for a car, Christmas, rainy day or maybe as a gift for a new born child.

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