I designed and created this very special birthday card for my friend and teacher Klo, who has taught me so much about the Pazzles Inspiration software for my Pazzles "Inspiration Creative Cutter". Her birthday is tomorrow, so I'm not going to post this to my blog until Saturday. Another very good friend and fellow Pazzles Design Team Member, Sue Reynolds, just recently designed a new Pen Tool that can be used with my Inspiration, that can hold many different sized pens and for this card, I used her pen tool with a Quickie Glue Pen to made the "lattice" panel. After I removed the panel from my Pazzles "Inspiration Creative Cutter" I covered the "lattice" lines with silver embossing powder and heat set it with my "Heat It" craft tool. I also used the same technique for make the silver lines around the bottom card panel...I wanted it to have the look of "peel-off" stickers, so I'm going to call it "Faux Peel Offs". In addition I used the very same technique for the "sentiment" and the "46", but I added some crystal stickles to the "46". I topped it all off with a bow made with my Bow Easy....love that little tool!!! I used my "faux peel-offs" technique again around the bottom panel. I used the smaller "Fluer de lis" pendant die and then some Nestie circles and topped it off with a real "Peel-Off" sticker of a gift for the inside top panel. I embossed my text onto a vellum square. I did the text in Photoshop using the beautiful "CAC Lasko Even Weight" font (free), printed it out using my Canan PIXMA 530 inkjet's "Photo Paper" setting and just as quickly as I took it out of the printed, I covered it with clear embossing powder to that it would be embossed. The text was done in black but after covering it with the clear EB powder and heat setting it, it almost looks silver!!! Also, the silver trim around it is actually "peel-off" stickers, as well as the "~2009~"!
I would love for you to stop by my blog on Saturday to see this card posted there where you can see some close-up photos of the detail on this card: http://yorkiemomsblog.blogspot.com/
TFL!!!
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Paper: Wausau Creative Collection Metallic Cardstock "Chalice Silverl", Canson Effects Papercraft "Galvanized" (fleur de lis panel beneath velum text panel), Staples "White Vellum" and Blue/Grey Carstock (don't know brand...some I'v
Ink: Embossing Powders: Stamp-n-Stuff "Detail Silver" and "Detail Clear Transparent"
Accessories: Spellbinders Shapeabilities Pendants "Fluer De Lis" and Nestabilities "Circles", Mark Richards "Crystal Stickers Pearls", "Crystal" Stickles, Flower Soft "Peel Off Stickers" (around text block), Mark Richa
Absolutely fabulous! Klo will love it and will appreciate all your effort. Thanks for sharing all you did to create this card and by that I mean all the font info, the printer info, the embossing and everything you used. I seem to forget all the neat things a diecutting machine can do other than 'cut'. (I have a KNK)
Wow your card is just beautiful.. I hope she doesn't lurk around SCS before her birthday.
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Thu, Nov 12, 2009 @ 5:13 PM
This is just beautiful, a stunning card!
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