Messy Birthday Cards - Scrapmatts DT

I had actually made the bases for these cards a few weeks ago, but I put them under my craft mat to dry without warping and must have forgotten about them. Sofie from Scrapmatts had just sent me out a new shipment of chipboard as part of their DT so I decided to combine the new chippies and stencils to add to my stash of birthday cards to have on hand for emergencies.

 

I find the most difficult part of creating cards is coming up with the design, so you can save some time by creating a few in a similar design each time. If you're interested in making something similar, here is how I made them:

 

Prep the background

1/ Cut your base cardstock to size. Mine are 4'x6'.

2/ Smear white gesso over the front and allow to dry.

3/ Spray mist through a stencil. I used pink Glimmermist through ST5007 which has given a very subtle effect for the card on the right and aqua Dylusions through ST5003 for the card on the left. Because the Dylusions ink pooled on the stencil I then flipped it over and used the excess like a stamp to get the reverse image on the middle card.

4/ Splatter black ink over the cards. Put aside for mists/ink to dry.

 

5/ Randomly stamp a script image over the background.

6/ Edge the card with black ink, applied in a messy fashion.

 

Create the tags

7/ On a scrap of kraft cardstock, apply white gesso through a stencil. I used ST5023 and ST5024. These are new stencil designs and I just LOVE them! Wait for the gesso to dry before moving on (even though you can see from my smudge I didn't wait).

8/ Mist randomly over the cardstock. I found Glimmermists didn't give me a bold enough coverage so used Dylusions instead. Wait for the ink to dry.

 

9/ Stamp a decorative image over the top in black ink. I used a Kaisercraft stamp which was the perfect width to then create tags from.

10/ Cut the cardstock scrap down into different sized tags.

 

Assemble the card

11/ Colour the background chipboard (CB5151 Webbing 01) black, I used stamp ink.

12/ Adhere the tag to the left side of the card using foam mounting tape.

13/ Adhere the webbing chipboard around the tag. I only used one piece for all three cards (and even have a bit left over) because I cut it into smaller sections and placed these around the tag.

14/ Adhere the leaf spray chipboard (CB1235 Leaf Spray 14). There are only two sprays in the pack but I again cut it down into pieces to suit my cards.

15/ Cut three small rectangles of muslin and distress these. Adhere over the bottom of the leaf sprays.

16/ Adhere the Happy Birthday sentiments (CB1243 Scrap Words 29) using foam mounting tape.

17/ Adhere three small white flowers to the bottom left of the sentiment.

18/ Scatter rhinestones across the card.

 



 

I hope you enjoyed the tutorial. If you do make a similar card please let me know and if it contains Scrapmatts chipboard don't forget to upload it to our Ning site, we would love to see your creations.