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Maple Leaf Birthday Card

Description

A cream card has a rectangle of gold linen card and a rectangle of parchment stamped with a maple leaf, embossed in jewelled gold. A gold ribbon bow and a Happy Birthday greeting sticker add the finishing touches.

Materials used

• Cream single fold greetings card 104mm x 152mm (4¼ in x 6 in)
• Gold linen card
• Parchment
• Deckle edge scissors
• Maple leaf rubber stamp PSX E1046
• Tinted inkpad
• Jewelled gold embossing powder
• Gold glitter glue
• Sticker Happy Birthday in gold
• Adhesive
• Gold ribbon bow

Method

Cut a rectangle of gold linen card with deckle edge scissors.

Cut a rectangle of parchment with deckle edge scissors.

Ink the maple leaf stamp with a tinted inkpad and stamp it onto the parchment.

Emboss the leaf with jewelled gold embossing powder.

Add gold spots to the parchment rectangle with gold glitter glue.

Mount the gold card rectangle and the parchment rectangle on the greeting card with adhesive.

Add a gold ribbon bow to the top left corner of the parchment.

Add a gold Happy Birthday sticker to the card.

Maple leaf birthday card made by Trish Caudle.

Maple leaf rubber stamp PSX E1046 used by kind permission of PSX. Sticker images used by kind permission of the copyright owners.

Please note that this is an old project. It is left here for the interest of the reader. Some of the materials used may no longer be available. We regret that we can not help you find a source of supply for these.