Hello all and welcome back to my post for the Couture Creations Design Team. 

This time we will make this Happy Birthday Card using the Couture Creation’s Gentleman’s Emporium collection.

For instructions on how to make up this card, please can you watch my video here: 

https://youtu.be/gjeDHmRO7wk 

 I made this card using the Couture Creations Gentlemen’s Emporium paper collection, the Gentlemen’s Emporium Ephemera collection and the Couture Creations mini guillotine, Go cut and Emboss machine and Go cut and foil machine and the border foil stamp.

For this project you will need:  White card measuring 21cmx15.5cm, folded in half, the 6x6 07A page trimmed down to 14cmx9cm, dark blue card trimmed to 14.5cmx9.5cm and black card trimmed to 15cmx10cm. The ‘Just for you’ sentiment, and regal male die cut from the Ephemera collection. Using the 6x6 05B page trim two mini strips with the blue stripes measuring 5.5cmx1cm, and from the 6x6 07B trim the words strip with Whiskey also measuring 5.5cmx1cm.  Blue card for the sentiment backing and white card to cut the Happy Birthday Sentiment, metal die with Happy Birthday words. Detailed stencil/s, Grey Distress ink, black gesso or gel medium and palette knife and blue micro beads (optional). Silver and Navy Blue heat activated foil, black embossing powder. Black angle hair and mini grey pearls. Couture Creations Foam dots and foam strips

Using your stencil, palette knife and the black gesso (if you don’t have black gesso, substitute with black distress ink and gel medium or modelling paste) blend together on your craft mat. Using the trimmed 6x6 07A page, place the stencil just off the top left hand corner and blend the gesso through the stencil. Clean the stencil and repeat just off the bottom right corner of the page. Clean you stencil and palette knife and set aside. While the Gesso or gel medium is still wet, sprinkle with the blue micro beads over the gesso, tap off excess beads and set the page aside to dry. My page dried overnight.

Switch on your Go cut and foil machine to warm up. Using a thin metal die and the small 6cmx6cm blue card, trim a die cut to back the Just for you Sentiment die cut. To foil the edges of the die cut, place the metal die onto the heating mat with the cutting blade facing up (NB!), place the silver foil with the shiny side facing down on top of the die, add the blue die cut card a scrap piece of paper to cover die cut and foil. Remove from the heating pad and place into your Go cut and Emboss machine. You may need to add an extra piece of shim or two to give some resistance when you slowly roll your foiling machine through your Go cut and Emboss machine.  

Using the metal border foil stamp, place face up onto your Go cut and Foil machine. Add the Navy Blue foil with the shiny side facing down on top of the metal stamp, add a strip of grey paper on top of the foil and finally a piece of scrap paper to cover all. Remove from the machine and slowly roll your foiling machine through your Go cut and Emboss machine. You may need to add an extra piece of shim or two to give some resistance when you run through your machine. Remove the metal stamp and foil to reveal your border foiled stamp. 

As a bonus, you can also use the left over negative piece of foil and foil onto another piece of paper to use for another project. To do this, place the foil with the shiny side facing down onto your heating pad, add a scrap piece of paper on top of the foil and another scrap piece of paper to cover all. Remove and slowly roll your foiling machine through your Go cut and Emboss machine. You may need to add an extra piece of shim or two to give some resistance when you roll through your machine. Remove the paper to foil to reveal your negative border foil transferred to the 2nd page. 

Die cut the Happy Birthday sentiment and using the silver foil, foil the die cut. To do this, place the silver foil face down on the heating pad, add the happy birthday words also face down on the foil, add a piece of paper to cover and then a piece or two of shim.  Remove from the heating pad and slowly roll your foiling machine through your Go cut and Emboss machine. You may need to add an extra piece of shim or two to give some resistance when you use in your machine.  Remove the paper and foil to reveal your negative border foil transferred to the 2nd page. 

Using black embossing powder, stamp the words with embossing pad, sprinkle with black powder and heat emboss. (I used the embossing powder to add an extra sparkle to the sentiment).

Your 07A page should now be dry from the gesso or gel medium. Using the stencil and grey distress ink, gently blend the image thought the stencil at the top right of the card. Repeat the blending thought the stencil at the bottom left of the card. Using the edge of you scissors rough up the edges of the pattern card. Secure to the blue matt card. Rough up the edges of the blue card, flip over and add the foam black strip and attach to the black matt card. Rough up the edges of the black card and attach to the front your white folded card.

Using the blue card, you foiled earlier with silver, stick this down on the right of the card in between the gesso areas. Add the ‘Just for you” sentiment from the Ephemera collection on top of this card. Add foam dots to the back of the border foil strip and stick down on the far left of the Just of you sentiment. Add the black angle hair and the stick the regal male die cut from the Ephemera collection on top of the angel hair overlapping the Just of you sentiment and the foiled border.

Using the mini blue stripy piece from 6x6 05B page, trim and stick just to the right of the foiled border at the top left of the card. Repeat and add the stripy piece just below the Just for you sentiment at the bottom right of the card. Repeat and add the Whiskey words just to the right and bottom of the blue strip. 

Using the sliver foiled Happy Birthday words, stick to the bottom left of the card, overlapping the legs of the regal male die cut. Repeat and add the black embossed happy birthday words on top of the silver words. To finish off add three mini silver pearls to the card.

Congratulations, herewith your finished Gentleman’s Emporium Just for you Happy Birthday Greeting Card.

Products used:

 C0726821 12 x 12 Paper – Gentleman’s Emporium - Double Sided Sheet 6x6 07A

C0726820 06 x 06 Paper – Gentleman’s Emporium - Double Sided Sheet 6x6 05B

C0726826 – Gentleman’s Emporium Die cut Ephemera Set

C0726343 Couture Creations - Mini Guillotine Trimmer

C0724824 Go Cut and Emboss machine

C027032 Go cut and foil machine 

C0726430 Self Adhesive Black Foam Strips

C0726428 Self-Adhesive Black foam dots

C0725393 Navy Blue heat activated Foil (Light iridescent finish)

CO725350 Silver heat activated foil

Border Hot foil stamp

Enjoy!

Lea-Anne Alexander

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