Happy Birthday American Presidents! Hi Pear Pals! Tia here with you from RockyMtnCraftia.com It’s President’s Day and as we celebrate them, I’m also celebrating my son’s birthday!
I’ve got a fun, bright and energetic masculine card that I’ve made using the Birthday Banners stamp set from Prickley Pear Stamps.
For this card, I wanted to fill my entire card base with the banners and created a running stream of them across the page using an acrylic block.
I started with a top folded A2 card and planned to run all four banners down the page. I started by measuring the banners. I found that together they would take up 3-inches of my card. That left 1.25 inches for the top & bottom.
Starting 1.25 inches down I took the longest banner and stamped it the full length across the card. For the second line, I stamped the shortest banner and filled the remaining line with another long banner. Because this banner was “too long”, it would naturally run into the third line and I kept this going-alternating the banners until I had created 4 rows. Leaving 1.25 inches at the bottom.
I selected a fun colorful confetti design paper in 1-inch strips for the top and bottom. I like using a thin 1/4in. strip of paper to ‘cover the seams’.
Before adhering my papers, I selected my Copics to coordinate and colored!
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Here is the list of COPICS I coordinated with:
Pink: RV11; R81; R83
Green:G03; G05; G17
Blue: B01; BG02; BG15
Orange: YR65; YR16; YR68
Red: R22; R14; R27
Pink Frosting: R81
Cream Frosting: Y23
Chocolate Frosting: E23; E57
Once I had my base of colors selected I used them randomly to fill in everything on the card-the confetti, cupcake wrappers, hats & stars.
For the flag ends, I initially colored the gap black and then realized I didn’t like it! (Yep, I change my mind mid-create all the time!) So, to add some flare, I filled in the darkened ends with an embossing pen and threw on some silver embossing powder. Because, who doesn’t love the look of embossing powder!
I completed the card by stamping the birthday sentiment that comes in the set and die cutting it out with a banner die. Orange is my son’s favorite color!!!
Thanks for following along with me for this fun birthday card! Stick around, the hubby has a birthday in March and I’ve got a plan on how to use this Birthday Banners set AGAIN! And the rest of the design team has more AMAZING ideas for you…AND maybe another NEW RELEASE?!?
Until the-you know what to do!
Go-Get-Crafty!
-Tia