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 – 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!