Design Techniques for Unique Greeting Cards are something to CHIRP about!

Would you like to experiment with a design like this? You’ll find a supply list below, including a link to the stencil I used from A Colorful Life Designs.  Follow the link and use discount code ChrisFan10 to save 10% on your entire order! (Master Creator Bundles are excluded as they already have a 20% discount built in.)

I never feel that my day is something to chirp about until I’m caffeinated!

Let’s get Started:

Card Base:  5.5 x 8.5, scored and folded at 4.25

Card Face:  5.25 x 4.25

Card Face:

• I placed the card face in my stamp positioner and stamped the focal image a couple of times with black Memento ink.
• I coloured the image with alcohol markers. This caffeinated fella is ready to take center stage on the card!
• After laying the card face on the Grip Mat,  I positioned the stencil, using a brayer to ensure good contact with the sticky surface of the mat.
• I applied navy blue and teal ink across the exposed areas on the stencil, taking care to avoid the coloured image.

Other:

• I looked through my sentiment binder and found this pair – they are perfectly suited to the image!

Assembly

• I glued the card face to the card base,centering the vertical edges.
• I created faux borders on the card by using a blue marker and a ruler. (The marker matched one of the blues used on the bird.)
• I glued the sentiments in place as shown.
• I drew brackets around the sentiment on the bottom, using a black fineliner.

Final Thoughts:

It’s odd what I don’t see when creating a card: for instance,  I see now that I forgot to create the outer border on the left of the card!   I will fix that up before sending it on.

I love this sentiment,  and I like the concept of the brackets around the second half of it,  but if I recreate this card I will handwrite that one as I don’t like the combination of hand drawn brackets with the glued on sentiment.

(but now that this fella is fully caffeinated, he’ll have more of a chance of remembering that question, LOL.)

Supplies: (and links where possible)

   I have listed which products I have used, and where they may be purchased. It’s a huge marketplace and in most instances, there are multiple sources and many alternatives to choose from.

Stencil: Square Swirl,  A Colorful Life Designs

Waffle Flower Grip Mat, 8.5 x 6.5, Scrapbook.com

Stamps:

    Coffee Doodle Doo,  Unity Stamps

     Simple Strips, Coffee: Taylored Expressions

Dies:   Simple Strips Die, Taylored Expressions

Ink: Stampin’ Up!

Blending Brushes: Stampin’ Up! 

Memento Ink: Stampin’ Up!

Alcohol Markers:

     Stampin’ Blends: Stampin’ Up!

     Copics:  Wallacks

Fineliner: Amazon

Adhesive: Tombow Aqua, Michaels

Card Base & Card Face: Accent 100 lb., Amazon

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