Inlay techniques – Happy Birthday my Friend

Hello Pink and Main friends! It’s Donna here, and I have a bright summery card to share with you today that matches perfectly the weather here in Tokyo. We’ve had record temperatures for this time of year, and we actually have the cooler on.

I am a huge fan of cover dies. I love the way they can be used as backgrounds, or as the main feature of a card. For today’s card I have used a partial inlay technique and lots of bold colours. The die used is called Flower Cover dies.

Firstly, the background panel for my card is a nice strong grey, which helps the other colours to really pop. The main cover panel is in a bright white (I used Neenah solar white 80lb) I’ve chosen really bright colours for the flowers from my stash of card stock.

I ran the white card through my die cutting machine with the cover die, and cut the ‘outlines’ first. I adhered this to the grey panel. I then ran small pieces of coloured card stock through with the die. If you ran whole panels through, you could make several cards at once and save time, but I was using up scraps, so small pieces it was, one per flower. I worked one flower at a time, adding liquid glue to the centres and petal areas and transferring the coloured petals across. This took a surprisingly small amount of time.

To make the sentiment for this card, I chose to use the very bold Birthday Script stamp, and emboss the main part of the sentiment onto vellum with white embossing powder. The vellum was cut using one of the Pink and Main Stitched Rectangles dies.

I then stamped and white heat embossed the smaller words onto ‘Pink and Main pink’ card stock. (How else would you describe that colour?) This was for two reasons. Firstly, I like the pop of colour. Also from a construction point of view, that gave me two anchor points for some dimensional tape that would be well hidden. I also used foam tape behind the white sentiment; the script is bold enough to allow space to hide tape.

That completes today’s card. I love the 70’s hippie feel of the flowers and bright colours.

Until next time,

Blessings,

Donna