Relaxing Birthday

 

Make this cool relaxing birthday card using a couple of stamp and die sets by Lawn Fawn

The thing I love about making your own cards and particularly stamping, is that you can mix stamp sets and colour in your own way to achieve a card that is specific to your recipient. It would be quite difficult to find that ideal card in the shops! The card below was made for a teddy loving, book reader, whose living room is a peachy colour.

This time last year, I made a little money box to collect coins, that the family find on the streets, for charity. Click here if you want to take another look at how it was made.

Anyway, we collected coins over the year and counted up what we had collected just after new years day. We collected £44.35 which we will be donating to cancer research. I've emptied the box and will be refilling this year with coins we find. I wasn't expecting to find quite so much as people are supposedly using more card transactions these days. But a brilliant donation for charity.

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

You will need

• Den Sweet Den stamp and die set by Lawn Fawn
• Window Scene: Winter, stamp and die set by Lawn Fawn
• Rectangle Die measuring 5 . 5 cm by 2 cm
• A6 Scalloped white base card
• White card
• Peach coloured patterned paper (I used a sheet of dotty peach card from 'You're a Peach' DSP by Stampin Up)
• Black ink pad
• Colouring media of your choice (I used Proimarker pens - ginger, sandstone, cinnamon, honeycomb, pear green, herb green, grey green, amethyst and ivory)
• Die cutting machine
• Glue and double sided foam pads

1. Stamp using black ink onto white card, the bear, open book, pile of books, steam, cup, window scene, sofa and cushion
   
   
   


2. Colour in the images and die cut out
   
   
   
   
   
   


3. So the bear can hold the book in his hands, you will need to use another die within the den sweet den die set to cut around his hands as per the following photo:
   
   
   
   
   
   


4. Put the book into the bears hands and add a little glue to hold in place
   
   
   


5. Print the following file onto white card 'Have a relaxing birthday' and use the rectangle die to cut out (If you do not have access to a printer, then stamp a greeting onto white card and use an appropriate die to cut it out)
   
   
   


6. Trim a piece of peach coloured patterned card slightly smaller than the base card front and glue centrally to the front of the card
   
   
   


7. Glue the window scene and frame to the card front so it sits more to the left hand edge of the patterned peach card
   
   
   


8. Use double sided foam pads to attach the other objects to the card front - the greeting at the top of the card, the sofa below the window scene. The bear and cushion on the sofa with the pile of books to the right of the sofa with the cup of tea and steam ontop
   
   
   

That is your finished card. You can add more detail to the window scene if you wish or even change it so it looks more like a hanging picture rather than a window.