Hello friends! I am always needing birthday cards for guys. This quick and easy design works for men or women, boys or girls, however I concentrated on using blues and greens and sentiments for this masculine birthday card.
For the background, images from the Birthday Sweets Stamp Set were stamped on a smooth white cardstock 4" x 5 1/4" panel using clear embossing ink and heat embossed with white embossing powder. Hero Arts Reactive Ink in Blue Hawaii, Splash, Green Apple, and Key Lime Fizz were applied over the embossed imaged with ink blending tools. The excess ink was wiped off the embossed areas with a dry paper towel.
Some of the ink was "lifted" from the stars using a water brush pen. Hero Arts Crystal Lacquer was then applied to the stars and allowed to dry.
Smooth white cardstock was applied to Fun Foam with Stick It Adhesive and die cut with the Dude Die before being inked with Splash and Key Lime Fizz. The sentiment was adhered to the background and finished with a layer of Hero Arts Crystal Lacquer.
A sentiment from the Birthday Sweets Stamp Set was stamped on smooth white cardstock inked with Blue Hawaii Reactive Ink using clear embossing ink and heat embossed with white embossing powder. The sentiment was die cut with the coordinating Birthday Sweets Dies and adhered under the "dude" sentiment with foam adhesive.
Another phrase was stamped on black cardstock with clear embossing ink using white embossing powder before being die cut with a Nested Banners Die. This sentiment was also adhered with foam adhesive.
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Do you struggle with masculine cards for birthdays? I sure do! Some of the Simon Says Stamp Celebrate You Release products spoke to me to create this fun and playful peeking frogs birthday card. I absolutely love the result and hope it inspires you to play around with products to create masculine guy cards!
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Watch the creation of this birthday frogs card from start to finish below or click HERE to watch in HD:
The Peeking Frog and Peeking Talking Frog dies were die cut from a 4 1/4" x 5 1/2" piece of smooth white cardstock. The frogs were colored with the following Copic Marker colors:
G00, G02, G09, Y0000, Y00
The eyes on the frogs die cut all the way if you want to do paper piecing. I purposely kept those and colored them in with pale yellows and added black gel pen to the eye centers.
Another panel was trimmed to 3 3/4" x 5 1/2" and inked with Mermaid Lagoon Distress Ink. The frog panel was adhered to the inked background with foam adhesive. Party hats were die cut from Simon Says Stamp Island Blue Cardstock and Gina K Wild Dandelion Cardstock, assembled and adhered to the frogs heads with foam adhesive squares.
Smooth white cardstock was adhered to Fun Foam with Stick It Adhesive and inked with Twisted Citron and Mermaid Lagoon Distress Inks. The HBD Die was die cut from part of the inked design and adhered above the "happy birthday dude" phrase. Another sentiment from the Stop Drop Party Stamp Set was stamped on the inked background with clear embossing ink and heat embossed with white embossing powder. The coordinating Stop Drop Party Die was used to die cut the sentiment and was adhered to the card as shown.
The Diagonal Stripes Background was stamped on smooth white cardstock with Simon Says Stamp Black Ink, trimmed into two 1/2" x 5 1/2" strips and adhered along both long sides of the card. The frog panel was adhered on top and the frog's eyes were finished with a layer of Glossy Accents.
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Stamp Kissing is a technique that has been around for a long time but it's something I haven't done in awhile and I thought these birthday cards would be the perfect time to revisit this fun technique! The balloons from the Simon Says Stamp Birthday Balloons Stamp Set and the Pattern Swatches Stamp Set make for awesome textured birthday balloons and the brand new CZ Design Birthday Palooza greeting stamp set is the perfect compliment to the design.
I started the card design by building the backgrounds with the large sentiment first. The large outline font greetings from the CZ Design Birthday Palooza stamp set were stamped on Bristol Smooth Cardstock using Versamark Ink and heat embossed with white embossing powder.
Tumbled Glass Distress Ink was lightly applied all over the background panel, keeping a lighter hand near the top of the background. I didn't intentional try to not in the greeting but I did try to keep the majority of the ink around the greeting. Zig Clean Color Real Brush Markers will cover up any of the light blue color. I spritzed the background with water from a Distress Sprayer and blotted it dry with a paper towel.
I colored in the outline greeting with Zig Clean Color Real Brush Markers, watered down with a water brush pen. The embossed outline helps hold the watercolor in place.
For the balloons, I first stamped the solid balloon image from the Simon Says Stamp Birthday Balloons Stamp Set with Distress Oxide Inks. To give each balloon a pattern, I inked up a Pattern Swatches pattern and "kissed" the pattern to the balloon image to transfer the ink to the balloon and then stamped the pattern over the solid stamped balloon image. I love this technique for adding a pattern to an otherwise solid image! If you have larger solid images, consider using your larger background stamps to add a pattern to a solid stamp.
Solid balloon strings were added with a fine tip black pen and a ruler.
Each background was die cut with a Wonky Rectangles Die to give each a decorative stitched border.
Greeting phrases from the CZ Design Birthday Palooza were stamped on black cardstock with Versamark Ink and heat embossed with white embossing powder. The greetings were trimmed into thin strips and adhered to the card with foam adhesive.
A scattering of Nuvo Crystal Drops adds a "confetti-like" look to the design and an extra pop of whimsy and color!
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To watch the creation of stamp kissed birthday cards from start to finish, click HERE or watch below:
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Simon Says Stamp has released stamps and dies designed by Cathy Zielske to celebrate STAMPtember! Special thanks to Cathy for collaborating on this exciting celebration!
This is not a limited edition STAMPtember release. That means, once it sells out, we will be restocking. Yay!
My card today features the newest CZ Design Coolest Yulest Stamp Set. I created both a background (splattered with paint) and stamped elements with a pigment based ink that I added clear embossing over to make them shiny and to seal in the color. While clean and simple in design, small details make all the difference!
While the background paint was drying I die cut a rectangle using a Simon Says Stamp Stitched Rectangle Die. The reindeer and word "merry" from the CZ Design Coolest Yulest Stamp Set were stamped with Vintage Photo and Fired Brick Distress Oxide Inks and heat embossed with clear embossing powder. Because the Distress Oxides have pigment ink in them, they are perfect for embossing!
Additional greetings from the CZ Design Coolest Yulest Stamp Set were stamped on black cardstock using Versamark Ink and heat embossed with white embossing powder. The phrases were trimmed into thin strips and adhered around the word "merry" as shown.
The panel was adhered to the tree background with foam adhesive.
Additional greetings from the CZ Design Coolest Yulest Stamp Set were stamped on black cardstock using Versamark Ink and heat embossed with white embossing powder. The phrases were trimmed into thin strips and adhered around the word "merry" as shown.
The panel was adhered to the tree background with foam adhesive and a drop of Nuvo Crystal Drops in Autumn Red was applied to the tip of the reindeer's nose.
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Watch the creation of this clean and simple graphic style Christmas card from start to finish below or click HERE to watch in HD:
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