it's my birthday tutorial

Hi there everyone, I have a tutorial for you today.. sorry there aren't any in progress pictures.. I will do more next time! 

This card uses 'it's my birthday girl' from the karleigh sue shop 

IT'S MY BIRTHDAY GIRL

Product list
Joanna sheen signature dies bunting SD064
Spellbinders floral ovals die
distressing tool
Copics
that craft place super smooth colouring card (300gsm)
That Craft place cheesecloth
American Crafts 'Butter' rose ribbon
Ki Memories self adhesive rhinestones
Paper smooches birthday sampler sentiments clear stamp set
stampin' up not quite navy ink pad
Stampin up brown sugar cardstock
stampin up pumpkin pie cardstock
stampin up tempting turquoise cardstock
Stampin up melon mambo cardstock
My Minds Eye flutterby 12x12 paper
My minds eye 'up and away' paper from 12x12 collection
dovecraft 3d foam pads
liquid pearls -petal pink
anita's tacky glue
6" square card blank craft UK
big shot die cutting machine




size 'it's my birthday girl' image to 11.5 cm tall and print onto super smooth colouring cardstock

colour with copics, and die cut using largest floral ovals spellbinder die. carefully cut around the main oval and then distress edges. use the same die to die cut the shape again in the brown sugar cardstock. glue the image layer to it, and then add liquid pearls to the centre of the 4 floral shapes. set aside to dry whilst creating the rest of the card.
measure card blank and cut a square of baked sugar cardstock 3mm smaller.
cut a piece of pumpkin pie, then tempting turquoise cardstocks each in 3mm smaller increments.
from the centre of the baked sugar and tempting turquoise cardstocks, die cut the banner die and lay aside for later. layer and adhere all three cardstocks.
cut a paper piece 3mm smaller than your smallest cardstock layer from the 12x12 flutterby paper, and distress the edges. stick down

cut a piece of pumpkin pie cardstock to 11cm square and a piece of tempting turquoise 3mm smaller, and a piece of chevron 'up and away' paper to 3mm smaller than that. adhere together.
cut a piece of cheesecloth roughly 1.5 cm bigger than this section, and stick to the back. then stick the layer to the one below.

to create the third layer, use your smaller left over pieces of cardstock to create a piece that goes across the width of the card front , using brown sugar cardstock ( 13x6.5cm) , melon mambo cardstock (12.7x 6.2 cm) and the reverse of the flutterby DSP (12.2 x 5.9cm)
glue down, then cut ribbon slightly longer than the width of your card. glue this to the middle of the strip using glossy accents.


using your super smooth colouring card , stamp 'party time' sentiment using not quite navy ink, and cut a matt for it using melon mambo cardstock. adhere 3d foam pads to the back and attach to bottom right of your card.
layer your banner die cuts so they overlap slightly and glue together , then add to top right of card.
add double sided foam pads to back of image oval (you may need to double up in some areas) and adhere to left hand side. finally add the self adhesive rhinestones to top left, top right and bottom left corners

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