Birthday card

I needed to make a small birthday card to go with a gift for my sister. I decided to use a stamp of a little bird that I got in New York by Laura Campbell from Rubber Soul, and also another stamp from inkainkado by Dawn Houser "A little bird told me it was your birthday."

I stamped both of these in black ink on white card stock and then used my copic markers to colour the bird. I mounted both stamped images onto shiny blue card and then placed these on a small white card. Before attaching, I placed some blue ribbon around the whole card under the bird image and tied this in a bow.

Embossed birthday cards

 Two friends recently had birthdays and so this gave me the opportunity to use my new "Happy Birthday" stamp from "Stamp-it" (2420D 2004) as well as my new clear mini stamps 99011 "Special bird."

I stamped Happy Birthday twice on white card stock using some Royal Blue versa colour ink, then quickly sprinkled some clear embossing powder on top. I also stamped the Bird and a little cat from a Kaisercraft stamp in the same blue ink and embossed these also. Since I don't have a heat gun, I carefully held the paper above the toaster until the image was suitable embossed. This seemed to work very well (and is much cheaper than buying a heat gun!)

I mounted the stamped images and text on some shiny blue card stock. I also mounted some lovely Japanese paper that I purchased from Bellbird Paperarts in Blackburn on the same shiny blue card stock.

Finally, I adhered the pieces to some wheat card.