Time flies when you’re having fun … and when you’re having kids. Suddenly the cute little guys and girls around you turns teenagers. Time to leave the cute cards behind and create something more stylish and cool.
- Type of project: card
- Occasion: birthday
- Style: modern/graphic
- Techniques used: ink spray, stamping die cutting
- Decoration: enamel embossing a.k.a frantage
- Main colour: multi Colored
- Media used: ink spray, black pigment ink pad, white embossing Powder, metallic cardstock, black and white cardstock
- Equipment used: stamps, dies, stencil
When I create birthday cards on a commission I often want to capture the child’s interests and personality. So this time it’s skateboarding and a girl who knows what she wants.
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I used ink spray to create a background. Then I stamped some skateboards on it and used two different stencils to make it more graphic. I cut out a film strip and stamped three different pictures on it in black pigment ink.
Then I cut out her name in black letters and put it vertically on the card. For the numbers I used metallic cardstock and put black underneath as a shadow.
Then I stamped the phrase Skater girls rule and embossed it in white. As a final touch I sprinkled some black/gold and white frantage embossing powder here and there. I just love that. It’s one of my favorite products actually. I loved how this card turned out. And I hope she will too.
I realized I’ve made cards for her since she was four. This is what her card looked like then.
Karin Åslund is from Sweden. Karin has been writing for TPC since 2020. Karin started paper crafting in 2005 and she makes cards, mini albums and do some Art Journaling. Her paper projects are often made in traditional Vintage or in a Whimsical style.