“Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale her infinite variety” is most definitely a phrase that aptly describes my Mother, recently celebrating her 80th Birthday and a lovely, wonderful lady. As such, she deserves a lovely card so I made this tri-fold, custom-cut Birdcage Card.
Card Recipe:
Stamp: Imagination Crafts
Colouring Mediums: Memento Black Tuxedo, ProMarker Pens
Paper & Card: First Edition Isabelle, pink textured card
Tools: Silhouette Cameo
Embellishments: Prima Flowers, hand-made beaded Hat Pins, crystals, pearl swirls, glitter, glue pen
I love to use my Silhouette Cameo to custom cut card bases. In this case, I choose a Birdcage shape. Using the Outline tool, I created a lightly larger image, use the mirror tool to create 2 further images and welded them together to produce a bird-cage shaped card base. I cut this from an A3 sheet of pink textured cardstock using my extended cutting mat. I cut the birdcage shape from white card and (using the offset tool) slightly smaller mats from patterned papers from the Isabelle premium paper pad. Finally I cut a doily shape, 80 and a fancy heart-shaped tag with Mother welded to it, all. Have I mentioned that I LOVE my Silhouette Cameo, especially with the extended cutting mat.
I stamped the pretty floral image onto an offcut of the pink textured cardstock and then stamped extra floral images onto patterned paper from the Isabelle premium paper pad, which I then decoupaged onto the base layer. I coloured the rest of the image with ProMarker pens.
To ensemble, I mounted the offset patterned background mat onto the front of the card. The bird-cage layer was distressed with Promarkers, glittered and embellished with rhinestone crystals. The stamped image was mounted onto the card. I added Prima flowers, which I layered up and added crystals to, pearl swirls and hand-made hatpins
As my lovely Mother doesn’t feel like she’s 80, nor does she want too much to admit to it, I made sure that any reference to 80 was on the inside of the card, and this was featured on a doily on the middle section of the tri-fold card. Finally, I added a pretty heart shaped tag to the final fold, on which to write my message. I cut this tag with my cameo and welded the word Mother to the top of the tag. I coloured the Mother with Promarkers to make is stand out and then accented with glitter, and added a feature of paper lace to the centre.
I am entering this card into the following challenges:
Bunny Zoe's Crafts - Anything Goes
Oldie But a Goodie Challenge - Lace, Pins and Pearls
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My main image is from Tonic Studios Birds on a Branch (Set 2) Stamp, stamped with Encore Metallic Purple Ink and heat embossed with clear embossing powder, then coloured with Promarkers.
I'm getting a bit obsessed with heat embossing at the moment, so I used Versmark ink and clear embossing powder over the Elegant Vine scroll background, to give it a lovely glossy finish and texture. I also heat-embossed the decoupaged bird cage and the printed branch at the top of the patterned paper.
