Happy Birthday - father and child silhouette on starry background square card

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Happy Birthday - father and child silhouette on starry background square card

 Hi Craft addicts!

 Well it is another sunny and hot (in my view) day here and I am enjoying watching Wimbledon! Here is a card that I think turned out quite well using dies, stamps and stencils/masks....


How I made this card:-
  • I first  of all cut out the main image of the man and a child (flying kites possibly) out in black card - there are 2 parts to the die set from Pretty Quick and I cut another one out in white and attached the silhouette one on top of it slightly offsetting it.
  • I then coloured the background using blues and red dye based inks (any will do but i used the Simon Hurley pads).
  • I stuck the whole panel on to a piece of dark teal card and cut around it leaving a narrow border.
  • Using a starry stencil/mask, I attached it to the front of a 5" square white card using low tack tape and then coloured through it with a teal coloured ink cube (on a sponge dauber), trying to make parts of it darker than others.
  • Once I was happy with it, I used PVA glue to stick the panel on to the card (towards the top).
  • Finally, I stamped the Happy Birthday sentiment on to some white card (using Black Gina K Amalgam ink), added some of the teal card to it using PVA glue and gave it a wavy edge.
  • I then used foam pads to add it to the card towards the bottom centre.
Products used for these projects:-
  • 6" white card with white envelope
  • Pretty Quick Man and child silhouette die 
  • Stars Mask/stencils
  • Happy Birthday sentiment stamps
  • White card
  • Black card
  • Blue, Red, Orange dye based inks or Distress inks
  • Teal card (From Tattered Lace old stock)
  • Collall All Purpose Glue
  • Cosmic Shimmer PVA glue
  • Foam pads
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