Teenage Birthday Card

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Teenage Birthday Card

Morning! Now, that's not a greeting that you get to say often to a teenager, but teenagers are our focus this week. And I've brought you a twofer of teenage birthday cards, albeit accidentally.

Tutorial

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I wanted to make a graffiti background, so I started by covering an A5 card panel with Distress Inks, swiping the full-sized pads directly onto the paper, then using the mini pads to fill in the gaps.

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Then I placed the Graffiti stencil over the panel, and used a blending tool to fill the spaces with Black Soot Oxide. I has to be Oxide because the normal Black Soot doesn't give as dense a coverage.

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Looks a bit of a mess at this stage, but when you remove the stencil the colours really pop through the black.

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Meanwhile I stamped the T-shirt from Nothing to Wear, added a star and the 'smile' from the same set, then die cut it using the coordinating die.

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I popped the T-shirt die onto the panel to give me an idea of placement for the white T-shirt, then I realised that if I die-cut the T-shirt out of the panel I could inlay the white T-shirt, and have a graffiti t-shirt for another card - win, win!

To complete my first card it was just a case of lining up the white T-shirt into the graffiti panel and securing it on the reverse with some washi tape, then mounting it onto my white card base.

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Because I'd placed the T-shirt centrally, there wasn't really enough room to add the sentiment on the front, so I added a strip to the inside of the card and stamped 'happy birthday' from the Go To Words set.

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Here's a close-up of the smile logo on the T-shirt.

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Now to the bonus card! Once I'd die cut the graffiti T-shirt I placed it into the white negative diecut on the MISTI then lined up the stamp to stamp the outline (pity I hadn't left the stamp on the 'MISTI). Stamping the outline gives the die-cut shape so much definition.

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I chose a vibrant green card base to complement the graffiti colours, then added some marks from the Transmission Glitch set in opposing corners

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and the 'happy birthday' from Go To Words in the bottom right corner.

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I love it when I get two cards for the price of one!

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Products Used

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Nothing To Wear Stamp Sets

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Nothing To Wear Co-ordinating Dies

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Transmission Glitch Stamp Set

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Graffiti Stencil

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