Card making and Gift wrapping / More Handmade Challenge 7#

    I bought an air therapy fragrance set as a birthday gift for one of my girlfriend. And I need to made a birthday card for her as well. Here's what I came out with.

I wrapped the bottle with brown paper and sprayed some white spray on it to add some interests and texture to the paper.  

And then I wrapped it with ivory satin ribbon and tied a bow on the top.

I also made a tag to go with it.

To make the tag, I first used some pink hue watercolors to hand draw some stripes, Set aside to let dry. Then I stamped some stars with gold metallic ink on a vellum.  

I died cut "Happy Birthday" 3 times from Brushstroke Birthday Greeting from MFT using black cardstock. I saved the negative of the die cut and used it as my birthday card card front. 

I stacked the die-cuts together to add some thickness and glued it on the tag. To finish the tag, I put a flower on it. Pretty! 

My birthday card is so simple. Just glued the negative part of the cardstock to a A2 size card base. Trim the excess part off. Finishing with some star sequins and wink of stella. Oh, the biggest star is a punch out from a gold cardstock.

The trickiest part of this card is......glue every tiny piece on the card base. It took me some time, but worth it. 

This card is also for July's More Handmade Challenge. 

This month's challenge is Stars!

XOXO

Summer

Supplies:

stamp: Scenery: Big Bang Confetti from Winnie and Walter

card: Stamper's Select White Card Stock, True Black card stock from PTI, vellum card stock and gold card stock from my local shop

ink; Golden Glitz Delicata Ink, Wedding Dress irRESISTible spray

die: Brushstroke Birthday Greeting from MFT

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    過幾天是一個好朋友的生日，剛好前一陣子好友提到想買水氧機放在辦公室，昨天去百貨公司逛了一圈，水氧機的價位實在不便宜，考慮再三，最後買了一組伊聖詩的室內香氛組作為生日禮物，因為自己也喜歡動手調一些精油來淨化空氣和消毒殺菌，所以我想竹枝擴香的香氛是個不錯的選擇，做了點簡單的包裝，並作了一張生日卡。

    首先量好香氛組的尺寸，裁好牛皮紙備用，如果想在牛皮紙上做一些裝飾的人，在開始包裝之前就要先處理牛皮紙，因為自己是先包裝好之後覺得太單調，事後才作了裝飾，要是大家也想動手自己包禮物的話，這個步驟就可以拿一些喜歡的印章來蓋印了。如果手邊沒有印章的人，也可以拿市售的圓形或愛心，或星型的標籤紙貼在上面，這樣也是簡單大方的自製包裝紙喔!

    包好禮物之後，接著來做禮物小卡(本來是沒打算作生日卡片才想到附一張小卡就好，卡片完全就是個意外! 哈! ) 我用深深淺淺的粉紅色水彩畫了一些線條在卡紙上，放到一邊等乾。然後拿星星印章沾金色印台蓋在水晶紙上，等它乾(一定要等乾啊!不然不小心星星就毀了!別問我怎麼知道的....囧)，

    趁水彩和蓋印乾的時間，拿出生日快樂的刀模和黑色的卡紙過大人物，我切了三次的字模，然後把字組合在一起，這樣看起來比較立體。最後將剛剛的水彩線條和蓋印的水晶卡紙裁出想要的大小，打個洞，加上紙繩和花作裝飾就完成了!!

    黑色的生日快樂卡是拿剛剛過刀模剩下的卡紙貼在白色卡紙上，剪掉多餘的部分，然後用星星打洞器打一個金色的星星貼在卡片上，最後再用星星型的亮片裝飾；我還用了wink of stella稍微點綴一下卡片。  這張都是星星的卡片剛好就被我拿來參加本月份的魔力手作挑戰了! 

    

Card Making / MFT Wednesday Sketch Challenge - Sketch 238

I made a shaker card today for My Favorite Things' blog challenge.

Wednesday Sketch Challenge - Sketch 238

Let's Party!

    To start off, I died cut my card front by MFT Blueprints 21#.  I then used the long stars stamp from PTI's Around and About stamp set to make my card base. I banded the stamp with a curve and inked with couples of inks: Sweet Blush, Hibiscus Burst, Raspberry Fizz, Harvest Gold, and Melon Berry.

And then I died cut my stamped cardstock with MFT Peek-a-boo Circle Windows.  I also cut a piece of fun foam to raise my card so that it added some thickness to my sequins.  After pouring some sequins and beads, I closed my window with a piece of pattern paper from Dear Lizzy Neapolitan collection for American Craft.

Then I stamped a couple of images on another piece of white cardstock using Studio Calico stamp set, Just for you stamp set by Neat and Tangled, and then I fussy cut them out.  I put some foam dots to raise the cat and the yellow balloon. I glued the card front to a A2 size Kraft cardstock.

Isn't it cut? I love the cheerful colors and images.

XXOO

Summer

Supplies:

Stamp: Around and About from PTI, Birthday by Lizzie Mackay for Studio Calico, Just for you from Neat and Tangled.

Inks: Sweet Blush, Hibiscus Burst, Raspberry Fizz, Harvest Gold, and Melon Berry from PTI; Sunshine, Lemongrass, Fresh Mint from mama elephant; Archival Ink Jet Black from Ranger.

Cardstock: Stamper's select White cardstock, Kraft cardstock from my local shop.

Dies: Blueprints 21#, Peek-a-boo Circle window all from MFT

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參加了這個星期的MFT構圖挑戰

剛好這兩天在做魔力手作挑戰的星星卡，就以星星為背景做了一張搖搖卡

首先將PIT的長條形星星印章彎出一些弧度貼在水晶塊上，然後挑幾個顏色可愛的印台蓋幾條星星，有點像派對上裝飾用的花環

然後用MFT的刀模切出圓形的缺口，我切了一片手工藝用的泡棉卡貼在卡紙後面

這樣等一下放亮片和珠珠的時候就不會貼在卡片上面

我發現用手工藝泡棉比用雙面泡棉好用多了

第一，省! 

(哈哈~ 手作這個坑可是很燒錢的，要想盡辦法省，感謝珍妮佛小姐的巧思)

第二，用泡棉的話不用擔心亮片和珠珠黏在雙面膠上面

我之前做搖搖卡時常發生這個問題，用了泡棉之後珠珠和亮片一個個都很獨立

第三，大面積的泡棉可以支撐整張卡面，不會出現沒有雙面泡棉的地方會凹下去的情況

等搖搖卡做好後，剩下的就是裝飾啦

我用Studio Calico和Neat and Tangled的印章蓋了貓咪和氣球

用剪刀剪下來後貼在卡片上面

是不是很有party的fu啊!