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Summary: When making a birthday card, decorate the card with stamping techniques and circle cutters. Learn about using two-way glue when making birthday cards at home with help from a demonstrator for a craft company in this free video on birthday cards.
Brandi Mackenzie is a demonstrator for Stampin' Up, a leading craft company with offices worldwide. Mackenzie gives seminars and classes on rubber stamping and card making.read more
"Hi I'm Brandi Mackenzie and today I'm going to show you how to make a birthday card. And today I'm going to use a stack called Party Hearty from Stampin' Up. This is a fun stamp set because it has lots of fun little things in it. And what I'm going to do right now is we're going to use verse mark and create almost like a watermark image onto these two sheets of paper. Stamp this image on this piece of card stock. The bigger image out of that stamp set and stamp it with a pacific point blue ink color. And to ink up your images pretty good I like to rub it like that to make sure and then you pat it to get a really good solid ink. It doesn't matter where you stamp it on your paper, on the white sheet. And now I'm going to take my 1 3/4 inch punch and punch out that image. And I'm going to get my 1 3/4 inch punch. And we did it, even. And then again I'm going to shade it with my kiwi kiss. Alright. And what we're going to do now is I'm going to glue that down. To finish I want to matte this in a real red piece of card stock. But I don't have a punch and so what I'm going to do is use my circle cutter. Alright now that I'm done cutting my circle. Move my glass matter away. I'm going to adhere this to my red circle. Oh got it the first time. And I want this popped up on the card a little bit so again I'm going to use my dimensionals. Dimensionals just pop up your images so they're not flat. Gives you a little bit of dimension to your project. Now that I've got those on there. Looks about right, right there. Glue this entire piece on to my whisper white card that I've scored and cut. Again, two way glue is one of my favorite just because it's a little less expensive, it goes a lot longer and you have a little bit of leeway with it as well. So I can put my project on there and go oh, yeah it needs to move over just a titch or up a little bit and you can still do that. And there is how you make a birthday card."
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