My nephew is turning 27–YIKES! What a slap in the face to remind me of how old I’m getting! LOL Anyway, he’s starting business school in the fall and for his last hurrah birthday, my parents, Mr. CraftyPaws, and I are taking him on a cruise!
To go along with a surprise special gift from the heart, I whipped together this quick and easy interactive card for him using Lil Inker Designs “Quick Notes” stamps and a Lil Inker Designs “Quick Notes Star Fold Out Die” (both retired) that I’ve had in my stash for about 4 years and never before used (yes, so embarrassing, but true). I used an orange and peach polka dot card base that a crafty friend sent me as part of a prize package about 5 years ago, and some patterned papers that may be even older.
I guess with the 4th of July, I had stars and stripes on my mind so I used the star fold out die with a scrap of rainbow striped paper. To make it a little bolder, I hand outlined the die cut with a 1/8″ margin all around on goldenrod colored cardstock and hand fussy cut out a mat with my Fiskars Spring Loaded Scissors and an X-Acto Blade. Then using my old trusty EK Success Stamp-a-ma-jig, I stamped “Smile”, “You’re a Star”, and “A Birthday Wish” on each of the stars. Originally I was just going to glue this on the card front, but then I thought it could use a little more pizzazz so I used the My Favorite Things “Shooting Star” die with more of the goldenrod colored cardstock and used the 2 sets of tails from that tucked under the fold out stars. For added shimmer, I coated all the tails with Clear Wink of Stella.
Then I decided to keep the fold out stars closed, I needed a belly band. I crafted one from more of the goldenrod cardstock and edged both the top and bottom with a 1/4″ orange and white striped patterned paper. To make the whole card seem more like a gift itself, I tied a grosgrain yellow ribbon around the belly band. This was a simple card to craft (no fussy Copic coloring, which is very unusual for me), but I think it came out looking very special for my nephew’s very special birthday!
CLICK on the following picture to watch the process video:
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This card is being entered into the following challenges:
Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Stars and/or Stripes Challenge
Fab ‘n’ Funky Stars and/or Stripes Challenge
Creatalicious Anything Goes with Optional 2 or More Design Papers Challenge
Word Art Wednesday Anything Goes Challenge
Lil Patch of Crafty Friends Anything Goes Challenge
Through the Craft Room Door Anything Goes Challenge
Crafts Galore Encore Anything Goes Challenge
613 Avenue Create Anything Goes with Optional More than One Fold Challenge – WINNER
Crafting By Design Anything Goes Challenge
The Male Room Multiple Layers Challenge
Super fun design! I love the papers you chose for this and the bow pops! Thanks for joining us and good luck with your entry!
Hugs! Joy
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Lil Patch of Crafty Friends, Owner/Coordinator
Such a fabulous card! Happy birthday to your nephew; hope you all have a fantastic cruise..enjoy! Thank you so much for entering our ATG challenge at Through The Craft Room Door this week. Looking forward to seeing you again next challenge.
Hugs, Zowie.
TTCRD DT
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Through The Craft Room Door
Great card and fold-love all the stars.Thank you for joining us at 613 Avenue Create
Carol DT x
Oooh! Nice one! Love the bright colors and the fun mechanism on the crd! Great job! Thank you for joining us at The Male Room for this challenge.
X Lise Mariann, DT at The Male Room
Love the bright colours on this cleverly engineered card! Thank you for sharing your project with us at the Crafts Galore Encore “Anything Goes” July Challenge. Good Luck and come back soon!
Carole x DT
Such a cute card!
Wow! Such a terrific interactive card. Thanks for playing along with us at The Male Room. Looking forward to seeing your creative projects in the future galleries again.
A super card and a fabulous design.
Thank you for joining in with the Crafts Galore Encore July Challenge “Anything Goes”. Good luck x
WOW! a SUPER design, great papers and fun too and your family are very generous to the lucky man. A birthday to remember for him. Thank you so much for joining us in our Multiple layers challenge at The Male Room this week. Looking forward to see you again next challenge.
Faith The Male Room DT
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A lovely card!
Thank you soo much for taking part in our “anything goes + optional 2 or more design papers” challenge over at Creatalicious & good luck in the draw.
Hope to see you again in our new challenge as well…
Hugs,
Melanie
(DT-Coordinator Creatalicious Challenges)
(DT Crafty Friends)
(DT The Sketchy Challenges)
(DT Simply Create Too)
PS: Sorry for the late comment, life had been very busy these past weeks…