Happy Birthday (Jeni Allen, Guest Designer)

Happy Birthday

by Jeni Allen, Guest Designer


Hey there!! I am happy to be sharing this fun birthday card with you all today!! I started out by using a scrap piece of cardstock and ran it through my Big Shot with the Triangle Card Panel die, and then used that piece of cardstock as a stencil. I got some ink and my ink blending tool and made sure to get all the triangle shaded with green ink. Then when I took the cardstock stencil off, I had this great green on green card front--love!!!

I cut out a turquoise Dragon Fly from the Dragon Fly pair die. I simply attached it to the card front.  Then I cut out my Happy Birthday Script die with white cardstock, while leaving the dies in the negative space so I could add my desired colors of ink w/o worrying about bending the die or ripping it at all. After I had used my blending tool and inks to get my desired shading, I adhered them to the card front. I put the card front onto a turquoise card, and then for the final touch added a nice thick coat of glossy accents! Once dry, the sentiment is super shiny and has some great dimension!!

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*** Materials for this project available at www.franticstamper.com.

FRA-Die-09452

FRA-Die-09267

FRA-Die-09355

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With Sympathy (Jen Carter)

With Sympathy

by Jen Carter


Sympathy cards are never fun to make.  Finding something appropriate can be very difficult. And because they aren't fun to make, I don't usually have any on hand when I need them.  With that in mind, I made two different versions of the same card using the Frantic Stamper Small With Sympathy word die.



I created the background with theTriangle Card Panel die. I really like how versatile this die is! I chose to leave most of the triangles in place (I taped them on the back side of the cardstock so that they would all stay in), and only popped out two rows.   You can see here that when I was finished with the card front, I popped the triangle panel up with dimensionals.



I die cut the small With Sympathy with gold cardstock. Then, I added a small butterfly from the Petite Butterflies die set and added a gold glittered enamel dot to the center.  I tied a piece of twine around the bottom of the card front to finish it off.



This card is almost identical to the first, I just changed up the colors for a more feminine look.



I still incorporated the trendy gold into my card, but this time as an accent bow.

I hope that this gave you some ideas on how to work with those very difficult Sympathy cards!

Thanks for stopping by today!

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*** Materials for this project available at www.franticstamper.com.

FRA-Die-09358

FRA-Die-09267

And, if you would like a more elegant "With Sympathy" die, this is also available:

FRA-Die-09359

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