Birthday Card Making – Basic Grey Card Kit – Grand Bazaar – Simple Card Design – with Simon Says Stamp & Fiskars

So many birthdays! This is another birthday card, this time for a friend. I cut a card base 4 and 1/2 by 10 and folded it in half at the 5 inch mark but I decided I wanted to have a taller and thinner card so I cut another card base 4 and a 1/4 by 12 and folded it in half at the 6 inch mark. I’ll use the other card base for something else.

After that, I chose out the pattern paper which I thought the recipient would like. This card is for a boy so I wanted to have more boyish colours so I chose the nice dark blue pattern paper and I cut it 4 and 1/4 inches by 6 inches.

I turned the pattern paper over so the white side was showing. I chose out my sentiment stamps and arranged them on the wrong side of the paper to measure their placement. Both the stamps I used to create the sentiment are from the Simon Says Stamp Better Together exclusive stamp set. It’s one of my favourites and is really versatile.

Once I had measured the placement of the sentiment I drew a couple lines to mark the space I needed to leave for the sentiment. I cut along those lines with a pair of scissors to have a straight area to work from and to also have the two pieces to work with. I then used the Fiskars scallop border punch to create a scalloped border on both edges that would face the sentiment.

Here’s where I had to troubleshoot… I made one edge wonky, so I had to cut it back and re-do the scallop border but it meant that there was a larger gap between the scallops and so a lot more white space. To fix that problem, I used the bit of pattern paper that I had cut away from the middle of the two pieces and placed it at the very bottom.

 

I knew I wanted to have the scalloped pieces raised with foam tape, so I adhered this bottom piece with just normal tape runner glue and then adhered the scalloped pieces accordingly with the foam tape for dimension. Then to finish the card off and fill-in the white space next to the sentiment I tied a bow from some red and white polkadot ribbon and I adhered it to the card using glossy accents.

Birthday Card Making – Basic Grey Card Kit – Grand Bazaar – Simple Banner Card Idea – Stash Busting

This is a look at a few of the scraps that were left over from some of the cards I had made using the Basic Grey Grand Bazaar Card Kit.

I used the Fiskars Paper Trimmer to trim weird shapes left over and create clean shapes that can then be used in more cards. It made all the scraps look a lot neater and more manageable.

I immediately grabbed the yellow and blue strip and thought they looked amazing together so I adhered the yellow down and then the blue on top, flush to the top of the card. There was gap or white space to the right-hand side that was uneven with the left so I used the strip of blue fox pattern paper and cut it into a ribbon, adhere it on the right-hand side to even the card out and bring some balance to the sides of the card but at the same time interest as it is shorter than the other two strips.

I used a yellow and introduced some pink with other scrap pieces that I had turned into the ribbon banners – such an easy to make element that’s versatile.

To finish the card off, I scrounged through my left over die cuts and transparencies and found a cut out of a fox in the same design as what’s on the blue pattern paper and a little spotted navy blue banner with a blank space where I mean to hand write a sentiment.

I think this card idea can be very versatile with the blank space banner as it can be a happy birthday card or a greeting card or even a thinking of you card. Let me know what you think of this idea by leaving me a comment.

Birthday Card Making – Basic Grey Card Kit – Grand Bazaar – Simple Banner Card Idea – Amazing

Another birthday card! I’m really liking that I’m getting so many cards out of the one kit. This is another card using scraps from the Basic Grey Grand Bazaar Card Kit. This one is a simple banner card idea that I put together quickly on my lunch break.

I started with a block of yellow which I placed in the center of the card leaving a crisp white border. From there I cut a couple strips of left over pattern paper into banners by removing a triangle from one end to create the forks. I adhered these stacked on top of each other on top of the yellow background.

I then added the ‘today was amazing’ title sticker, which is also a scrap as the left-hand side banner piece had be cut off to make an element. The element I added to a greeting card I had made for my grandma also using the Simon Says Stamp Better Together Stamp Set, you can check that out by clicking here. I thought there was a little too much blue at this stage, so I cut a strip of yellow scrap paper into a banner and adhered that over the two blue banners. I really liked this effect as not only had I added more yellow to the card but I had added the third element to for the grouping.

I felt that the card was just little too straight at this stage so I scrounged through all the Grand Bazaar die cuts and transparencies I have left over and found three flowers in circles and I adhered them over of the banners to create a nice triangle. This is another quick and easy card design and best of all it’s stash buster!

Let me know what you think in the comments below!

Birthday Card Making – Basic Grey Card Kit – Grand Bazaar – Becky Williams Design – Good Times

There’s quite a few birthday’s happening this month which is calling for more cards to be made. Once again I’ve opted to save time and use one of the designs provided in the Basic Grey Card Kit. This time I chose one of the Grand Bazaar cards designed by Becky Williams. With this card it allowed me to use some scraps.

I used the yellow pattern paper strip and I had to cut the orange pattern paper into a strip and then I cut the triangle from the bottom of each to turn them into banners or ribbons.

I had a block of the blue fox pattern paper left over. It was the exact size specified in the instructions but I thought it was enough. I adhered it to the top of the card.

Then I layered the elements as instructed. I found I had cut the cut too short so the ‘good times’ note sheet on top of the blue fox paper was too long. I simply trimmed the bottom. The circles were fussy cut and were very difficult to fussy cut out without making them look wibbly-wobbly. It’s a bit hard to drag the big shot to work though for die cutting.

And then finally I used the ‘good times’ sticker and I decided to staple either side of the banner rather then as was instructed. And then I adhered the shiny, gold foil element. And that’s it! Such a simple card to construct and it came along really quickly. The thing that took the longest was fussy cutting out the circles but if a die cutter was used then I think this card would definitely be a 10 minute construction card. Very nice!

I sure had a good time!