Celebrating belated birthdays (it's the latest trend) continues today with a card for Kelly Booth's March 17th birthday!
Yesterday I pulled out all sorts of grungy stuff to make a Steampunk Door Birthday Card for Shelly Hickox and naturally none of the supplies had been put away. While starting to store the Tim Holtz Pediments die in my Bigz drawer I got the sudden idea that a pediment would look fabulous on the Accordion Album die! (Pssst - the Accordion Album is back in stock but going fast at Scrapbook.com HERE) It worked out perfectly with another idea I'd been meaning to try - cutting the album out of a clear material.
I used Bazzill Plastic Paper for the album. I folded the tabs back and forth several times before assembly to loosen them. The patterned paper is Bo Bunny's Prairie Chic.
When the card is closed, the Happy Birthday stamp (Stampin' Up! - stamped with white paint and colored on the back with alcohol ink) has a blue background, which is actually the paper on the back side of Page 2. Clear albums are so fun! You can see, for example, all the white rub-ons (stash item, very old) through the outer frames no matter which layer they are actually on.
The patterned papers were cut using the Bigz Frame & Label, Bracket die, which perfectly coordinates with the Accordion Album. To create the circle cut-out I used the Star & Circle Movers & Shapers set. When the circle of that set is cut, it also cuts a scalloped circle at the same time. I turned the scalloped circle into a flower by cutting between each scallop toward the center and then pinching all the petals.
I will write a personal greeting on the blue paper before mailing. The bird is a stamp from the same Bo Bunny collection, stamped, colored with Copics, and fussy-cut.
The paint color for the edges of the clear album and the pediments is Tim Holtz Distress Paint; Broken China. I cut the pediments from wood-colored cardstock, then covered with paint, dried and sanded.
Happy Birthday, Kelly!
Who will get my next belated card? I'm thinking maybe my Mom . . .
Seriously??? Excuse my first Comment I was on my phone and only looked at the pictures.....
You know? OLD eyes... :)
This is AWESOME and so are YOU!!!! xoxoxo
Posted by: kelly Booth | March 22, 2013 at 03:27 PM
A genius, I say, a genius!!!!
Posted by: Barb McCarthy | March 22, 2013 at 03:34 PM
Beyond amazing! Where do you get the plastic Bazille paper? Love this. You can work on my card soon. My birthday was in September...so you are very overdo, even though we just know each other for a short FB lifetime...but I gratefully accept all cards ...early/late, whenever!
Posted by: alison bergman | March 22, 2013 at 03:54 PM
That is totally beautiful!!!
Posted by: Helen Cryer | March 22, 2013 at 04:58 PM
Love the accordion flip album cut from clear material! Very cool! Adding this to my loooonnng list of things to try!
Posted by: Donna Gibson | March 22, 2013 at 07:39 PM
Amazing idea to use clear material for accordion album ! The colors and the embellis look fab !
Posted by: Pooja | March 23, 2013 at 02:06 AM
This is so stunning!! Love the colours and great idea to use the Pediments die. I've been wanting to use the accordion flip on acetate too, love this look.
Posted by: Anna-Karin | March 25, 2013 at 05:07 AM
Okay - WOW! So that is AWESOME!!! Love the idea of using the clear. What a cool card!!!! And you know i love that flip album! ;-)
Posted by: gscrapbooks (Gretchen) | March 25, 2013 at 03:25 PM
This is gorgeous!
Posted by: Memoriesbymanda | March 25, 2013 at 07:41 PM
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Posted by: Scrapbook.com | March 28, 2013 at 02:13 PM
Beautiful.
Posted by: Ann Benefield | April 04, 2013 at 07:32 AM
Wow this is amazing!!! Love it!!
Posted by: Gina | April 24, 2013 at 05:17 PM
AWESOME LOOKING !!!!
Posted by: Judy Estrada | April 24, 2013 at 05:28 PM
wow!!! Beautiful!!!
Posted by: annie liu | April 25, 2013 at 08:06 AM