Simply Said – Happy 60th Birthday

This week at Just Add Ink (#769), we are given a choice.  Pick Two: I selected Numbers & Neutrals.

That is pretty wide open…so the following challenges influenced my design decisions:

Style & Colors – CAS Colours & Sketches (#569) for a clean and simple card; TGIF (#542) for the Sketch; Addicted to Stamps & More (#501) to use Coloring Tools; and Make My Monday (#260) to have fun with Stencils.

I hope my card inspires you and I look forward to seeing what you create with either words, numbers and/or neutral colors.

Here is the result:

Steps:

• Card Base: (8½” x 5½” scored at 4¼”) Pecan Pie cardstock.
• Card Front: (4¼” x 5½”) Very Vanilla cardstock.
  • Stencil / Mask: (4¼” x 5½”) Copy Paper die-cut with the (1⅞” x 1⅞”) Stitched Rectangle Square die from the Stylish Shapes Dies set.
  • The Very Vanilla cardstock was adhered to my work surface with low-tack adhesive, and the Stencil was centered over it with low-tack tape.
  • Using a Blending Brush, Pecan Pie ink was added to the Tilted Square opening.
  • With the Stencil still in place, the Plaid Pattern was created with Stampin’ Blends Markers and a Ruler.  Colors chosen: Light Pecan Pie, Mossy Meadow and Secret Sea.
  • The Stencil was removed, and the Tilted Plaid Square was outlined with the Light Secret Sea marker.
  • The Stencil was shifted left and right by (⅜”) and the resultant Die Cut-Square piece was used as a Mask to cover the Plaid Square.  Mossy Meadow ink was added with another Blending Brush.
  • Both Stencil and Mask were removed, and the Mossy Meadow Squares were outlined with the Light Mossy Meadow marker.
  • The Card Front was then trimmed to (4” x 5¼”).
• Sentiment Banner: (4” x 1”) Secret Sea cardstock scrap.
  • The greeting, Happy Birthday, from the Simply Said stamp set was stamped with Versamark ink and heat-set with White Embossing Powder.
  • The Banner was trimmed to (3⅜” x ⅝”) and hand-notched with Paper Snips.
• Numbers: Secret Sea cardstock scrap.
  • The Numbers 6 and 0, from the Alphabet A La Mode Dies set were then die-cut.

All elements were adhered to the card base to resemble the sketch.  The Banner was popped up with Dimensionals and the Numbers were added.

A nice guy card with visual interest but kept clean and simple.

I appreciate that you spent some of your time with me today.  Cheers,  Jolanda!

Need a card? Ask me and I can create one for you.  Want the supplies to create your own, let me know and I can help you with that too!

Like this card? Want to make one similar?
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