The first week in August, I started to make notes and write down ideas of how I wanted my mum's birthday card to look. I knew I wanted to make the card slightly different to what I have normally done in the past.
I also knew I wanted to put some sort of cupcake or rose on the card. After making up my mind I decided on having a cupcake on the front as I was ordering a rose for my mum (Which you will be able to read about soon).
I set to work, gathering the materials I was going to use. I already had the card stock and some of the paper I was going to use. But I just did not have any cupcake items for card making.
So off I went into town, to see what I could find. To my knowledge there is only about three places in the town, that sells card making stuff. One of them is 'The Works' ( which is a book/stationary/craft store ). I got some new card and paper stock. They also had some cupcake embellishments, but not really what I was looking for.
Once I got home I had to hide what I had just bought, as my mum was about. I wait until mum had gone to bed before I could set to work, with making her birthday card.
I got out one of my already folder purple cards and placed it on the table. I then folder the front of the card in half again, to make it look like this.
The picture below is how I wanted the card to look.
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I also knew I wanted to put some sort of cupcake or rose on the card. After making up my mind I decided on having a cupcake on the front as I was ordering a rose for my mum (Which you will be able to read about soon).
I set to work, gathering the materials I was going to use. I already had the card stock and some of the paper I was going to use. But I just did not have any cupcake items for card making.
So off I went into town, to see what I could find. To my knowledge there is only about three places in the town, that sells card making stuff. One of them is 'The Works' ( which is a book/stationary/craft store ). I got some new card and paper stock. They also had some cupcake embellishments, but not really what I was looking for.
So I popped into Wilko's to have a mooch round, while I was in there I found Dovercrafts Tea Party 8"x8" Glitter Decoupage pad. I hummed and arr about getting the Tea party
pad, I even walked around the store. Once I made up my mind I went back and pick it up
and went down to the checkout to pay!
Once I got home I had to hide what I had just bought, as my mum was about. I wait until mum had gone to bed before I could set to work, with making her birthday card.
I got out one of my already folder purple cards and placed it on the table. I then folder the front of the card in half again, to make it look like this.
Once I had folded the card I then got out my section of girly gift wrap paper. It took me a little while to work out which paper I was going to use. I decided to use two of my gift wrap paper's. First one is pink with a outline flowers and a pink check effect a bit like a table cloth. The second one as 'mum' write on it - with bear's and flowers.
After I had decided on which paper's I was going to use, I cutted them down to size. I then got my trust worthy double sided sticky tape out and stuck the bears and flowers paper to the back flap of the card. I did the same with the pink flower paper, but this time I stuck the paper to the front flap.
Then I got out my Dovercraft Tea Party pad. I decided to use the single cupcake topper in the pack. So I pushed out the pieces to the cupcake and then I got out my double sided sticky tape pad's and layed the pieces up, to how I wanted it to look.
Once I had done that, it was time to stick the topper using double-sided sticky tape to the card!
Mum loved the card I made her and also the rose I got her.
