Bust out those neutrals and create a sepia toned birthday card thats got vintage charm and SWEET birthday wishes.
Today’s fabulouse card creation comes from our designer Maurilia! This birthday card has an old school vibe with neutral colors and with it’s newspaper background, thus, being the perfect card to any male recipient. We love a masculine vibe and this card is giving us bold and fun designs.
- Step 1 Cut the card frame using 5218D rectangle combo#3 opc die in kraft card stock. Here you will using the negative space left from this die. Simply trim each side to create a rectangle.
- Step 2 Next you will stamp 35022 news paper background stamp in color fuse hearth on an off-white piece of gift wrap tissue paper. Adhere to a rectangle piece of kraft stock using tape runner.
- Step 3 To create the wooden table, use 5708-01D wood plank panel die to cut a rectangle lengthwise out of kraft card stock. Use color fuse cinnamon to ink the edges and add depth.
- Step 4 Cut the cake, icing and sprinkles using 5803D slice of birthday cake die . Use color fuse cinnamon to ink the frosting. Use color fuse mocha to ink the cake layers and then use color fuse pecan spritzed with water to sprinkle this dark color over the layers of the cake. Use color fuse caramel for the icing and color fuse pecan for the sprinkles. Adhere the sprinkles to the bottom edge of the cake as well as to the top edge of the cake. Adhere more sprinkles throughout the cake layers. Assemble the cake and add foam tape to the back as well as to the icing for dimension. Lastly use color fuse chill to shade and add depth for the cake plate using the 5847-01D large teacup w/ saucer die.
- Step 5 Adhere the frame to the newspaper background. Adhere the wooden table to the bottom of the panel. Adhere the plate to the table and add the cake.
- Step 6 Finish your card by using 3031 happy birthday happy birthday sentiment onto kraft card stock and use color fuse pecan for the ink.
- Color fuse sets used: color fuse set #3 and color fuse set #12
