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08 May Birthday Seasoned With Love

Posted at 08:00h in Birthday Cards by JStrachan 0 Comments

WE MADE IT! The Birthday Card #7 reveal. Today’s card is the final card in this year’s Birthday series for my Big Brother Bill. He is known as a FABULOUS cook and his pies, cakes, cookies, etc are UNBELIEVABLE too. For his final card I decided to pay homage to his superb culinary skills and created a pop-up kitchen.

Let’s begin with the card front. Staying with the cooking theme I used the Hero Arts, Kitchen Tools and Kitchen Crocks diecut sets and arranged them on a Flame Stardream Metallic 81lb cover cardstock background emobossed with the Stampin Up, Painted Texture 3D folder. I used adhesive foam to attach some of the cooking utensils to add dimension to the card front. I printed the front sentiment on my laser printer then I used my Minc and hot foiled it in black. It was diecut using the Spellbinders, Labels Twenty-Three diecuts, sprayed with Iridescent Glitter Dust and finally matted with Bronze Stardream Metallic 105lb cover cardstock.

The card front is seen below:

The inside of the card was created using the Karen Burniston, Oven Pop-Up and Oven Extras diecut sets. The color theme was centered around his favorite color, orange. I have to give a shout out to my Dad who contributed by giving his opinion on the kitchen color choices. Once again, I think he made some good selections.

The papers used for the kitchen cabinets were: Crystal Stardream Metallic 105lb cover cardstock, Bronze Stardream Metallic 105lb cover cardstock, Recollections woodgrain texture cardstock, and a printed decorative pattern cardstock. The backsplash was created using the diecut from the Oven Extras set. First, I used it to emboss the bricks and grout onto a piece of Stampin Up, Chocolate Chip cardstock. Then I used the same diecut as a stencil to protect the grout lines while I used white pigment ink to color the bricks and then embossed it with Judikins, Clear Detail embossing powder. I used silver foil/mirror cardstock for the oven hood, various appliances and kitchen utensils, the oven racks, and to make the frames that hold the pictures above the counter. I also used DCWV, foil/mirror cardstock in purple, red, and blue for kitchen utensils and accessories as well. The bread diecut was also perfect because my brother makes delicious homemade bread. I diecut the bread and colored it with Copic Sketch Markers to put on the counter and in the oven as well.

For the kitchen rug I decided to use pictures I had of some of the meals my brother has made over the years. I formatted the photos and grouped them into a rectangle then printed it onto fabric paper to give the rug a woven texture. Of course, I sprayed it with Iridescent Glitter Dust because you know how much I love Bling. I mounted it to a piece of Bronze Stardream Metallic 105lb cover cardstock diecut using the Spellbinder, Curved Rectangles set. For the sentiment I stamped and embossed “Happy Birthday” from Endless Creations onto vellum and then sprayed it with Iridescent Glitter Dust and finally mounted it on top of the rug.

A close-up of the rug is seen below:

Once everything was finished it was hard to keep the card closed so I added a ribbon closure. Kudos to Karen Burniston on her pop-up diecuts which create really nice cards and are manageable to use. It was a fun card to make although challenging, but I have always loved a challenge. Below are pictures of the final card.