Wintery Birthday Card

Hostess Tami here!

Today, December 26th, was my grandmother's birthday. Over the years, she came to accept that most of the time she would get "combined" gifts and cards - Christmas and Birthday. And if she did receive separate gifts, the birthday presents would usually arrive decked out in the same holiday wrappings as the Christmas gift.

So, in honor of Gram, I've designed a special winter birthday card...

I started with some of my grandmother's favorite colors; periwinkle and light blue. And then silver and white along with a little shimmer were added to compliment the color scheme. The periwinkle paper was "smooched" using Smooch Spritz in Vanilla Shimmer to add a little "snow".

I used a stamp from Memory Box that I had originally used for a fall card {re-purpose!}. But by embossing them in white using the NEW! Jasmine Mix'd Media Inx Embossing Powder, the effect is ALL winter. Watermark ink was used to create a "background" for my frosty stand of trees...

And for that touch of shimmer, I used Glue Gloss to fill in the trees using Fairy Dust Glitter in Mixed Berries...

The sentiment was stamped in Pigment Ink and embossed using Opalescent Clear Embossing Powder for another special touch on a silver embossed tag...

 

SUPPLIES:

Clearsnap Products:

• ColorBox Pigment Ink: Plum Berry and Silver
• Smooch Accent Ink: Olive Twist
• Smooch Spritz: Vanilla Shimmer
• Watermark Ink
• Top Boss Embossing Powder: Opalescent Clear
• Donna Salazar Fairy Dust Glitter: Mixed Berries
• Mix'd Media Inx Embossing Powder: Jasmine
• Color Catcher
• Glue Gloss 

Other Products:

• Memory Box: Stand Of Trees
• My Sentiments Exactly: Birthday Sentiments
• Hot Off The Press: Embossed Silver Tag Printed Paper
• Bazzill: Light Blue and Periwinkle Cardstock
• Beacon Adhesives: Zip Dry 
• 3L: Scrapbook Adhesives: 3D Foam Squares - Small, White
• Silver Ribbon

Tools:

• Scissors, Trimmer and Heat Gun 

DIRECTIONS:

1. Cut a 5 X 10 piece of light blue cardstock and fold in half to make card.
2. Cut a 3 3/4 X 5 3/4 piece of periwinkle cardstock, place in Color Catcher and spritz with Vanilla Shimmer; set aside to dry.
3. Ink stamp with Watermark ink and stamp trees across cardstock about 1/2" from bottom - let dry.
4. Ink stamp with Watermark ink and stamp and emboss trees across card about 1/4" from bottom of card using Jasmine Embossing Powder.
5. Use Glue Gloss to fill in trees using Mixed Berries Glitter.
6. Fill in tree trunks using Olive Twist Smooch.
7. Ink edges of cardstock using Silver Pigment Ink; when dry, adhere towards bottom of card.
8. Adhere silver ribbon along top of periwinkle piece.
9. Cut out tag, then stamp sentiment using Plum Berry ink, emboss using Opalescent Clear. Use 3D Foam Squares to adhere towards top right of card.

If you have friends or family with a birthday close to Christmas, I hope you'll be inspired by this card to create something special for them. Something that isn't red and green or wrapped in paper with Santa, ornaments or Candy Canes on it!