18 B-Day Card!

Hello :D! Recently was a friend's b-day, and I decided to make her a card. I got inspired from the card of HEIMLAGA in flickr. I think it turned out really well, so here I leave it to you, so that you can make it too! Enjoy!

Materials:
- A color paper (for the card).
- 2 patterned paper.
- White paper.
- Corrugated cardboard.
- Thread and needle.
- Sequins.
- Glitter.
- Black paint.
- Adhesive.
- Green lace.
- Red foam.

Instructions:
1) Fold the color paper in two. Draw a cupcake (be sure that the drawing begins where the card is folded) and then cut the card.
2) Draw in the patterned papers the top of the cupcake (the cream). I did this a little smaller than the card it self, so that a paper border was left from the card. Do one smaller than the other.
3) Draw in the corrugated cardboard the bottom of the cupcake (the "paper") and then cut it.
4) Pass a brush with black paint softly into the corrugated cardboard, so as to give it a darker look. When dry, add some adhesive to it and then the glitter.
5) Take the "cream" you did with the patterned paper and make some perforations throughout the border. Then pass the thread doing backstitches. Then paste it to the card.
6) In white paper cut the b-day number (18 in this case). Then add sequins as shown in the picture. Paste the number to the card.
7) Make two foam strawberryi. To make the seeds I used yellow thread.
8) Use the green ribbon to make the strawberry leafs by pasting it in the back. Paste the strawberry in the card.
9) Finally write in white paper "Congratulations", cut it and paste it as shown in the picture. Hope you've liked it :D!

All the steps.


Here you have a clear example of where not to work! Remember: space is important!

Birthday Cards!

Hi again! I know this blog is supposed to be about scrapbooking, but I made two birthday cards with the materials I showed you before and I think they look really cool, so I would like to show them to you and also to tell you how did I make them! This are the two cards:

I made the pink one for my grandma and the second one for a friend.

Materials you will need (for both cards):

- Paper.
- Watercolor paper (you can use another paper if you don't have this, but this one is the best one for using watercolor paint).
- Watercolor paint.
- Corrugated cardboard (the one I have is in a red-metallic color).
- Adhesive.
- Mounting tape.
- Foam
- A pencil, an eraser, a pen and scissors.

Instructions for the first card (the pink one):

1) Take a paper sheet and fold it in half (you can use any paper you want; I used a paper that is pink in one side and white in the other one).
2) Draw some flowers with a pencil in watercolor paper and then underline it with a pen.
3) Paint the flowers with watercolor paint, then cut them.
4) Cut two foam rectangles, a bigger one and a smaller one.
5) Write "Happy Birthday" or something like that in another paper (I used watercolor paper) and then cut it.
6) Stick the flowers with some mounting tape, and then stick everything else to the paper sheet you fold in 1). Use the picture of the card before to guide yourself. Then you have finished your card :)!

Steps 1 and 2.

Instructions for the second one (the one with the alligator):
1) Take a paper sheet and fold it in half.
2) Draw a cute alligator (or another cute animal or person or whatever you want) with a pencil in watercolor paper and then underline it with a pen.
3) Paint the drawing with watercolor paint, then cut it.
4) Cut two large corrugated cardboard rectangles, a bigger one and a smaller one.
5) Write "Happy Birthday" in another paper (I used watercolor paper) and then cut it.
6) Stick the drawing with mounting tape and then stick everything else to the paper sheet you fold in 1). And now your card is done!

Steps 1, 2, 3 and the completed card.

Details: You can add some details to your cards. For example, I made two flowers for the pink card; I added one in the back of the card (with some text next to it) and the other one in the inside. For the alligator card I made a little present and a heart. I did the two flowers and the present just as I did the other flowers or the alligator; by drawing them and then painting them with watercolor paint. For the heart I used corrugated cardboard.

The two flowers (the one in the back with the text, and the one inside the card), the little present in the back of the alligator card and the heart inside of it.

Recommendation: Before painting your drawings with watercolor paint, try them in a separate piece of paper, so as to be sure that the color you are using is the one you want.

Hope you've enjoyed this post :)! Please leave your comment!