Zesty Birthday Card with Buckle Closure
.Create a zesty Birthday Card and add a Buckle Closure—Looks harder than it is.
Zesty Card Recipe
Stamps Set: Sweet Citrus
Ink: Lemon Lime Twist, Lemon Lolly, Daffodil Delight, Flirty Flamingo, VersaMark.
Paper: Basic White – 8-1/2″ x 5-1/2″ score at 2-1/8″ and 6-1/2″ and burnish with Bone Folder, 5-1/2″ x 4-1/4″, Lemon Lime Twist – Cut 2 @ 2″ x 5-1/4″ scraps for flowers and sentiment, Bright & Beautiful 6″ x 6″ Designer Series Paper – -Cut 2@ 1-7/8″ x 6-1/8″, for inside panel cut 1 Lemon Lime Twist DSP @4″ x 5-1/4″
Accessories: Opaque Ovals, Basic Stampin’ Emboss Powder (White).
Tools: Stampin’ Cut & Emboss Machine, Sweet Citrus Hybrid Dies and Embossing Folder.
Basic Supplies
Paper Trimmer
Bone folder
Paper Snips
Take Your Tool Pick
Shammy
Stampin’ Seal/Seal+
Multipurpose Liquid Glue
Stampin’ Dimensionals
Mini Glue Dots
Instructions
- On a piece of Basic White cs, stamp the fruit with Lemon Lolly ink, stamp a second set of fruit with Lemon Lime Twist. Use Filtry Flamingo & Lemon Lolly inks and stamp flowers on Basic White scraps, Stamp the centers of flowers with Daffodil Delight ink. Use the Lemon Lime Twist ink and stamp 3 sets of leaves
- Die cut both sets of fruit with the Sweetest Dies.
- Lay the fruit pieces in the Embossing Fold and run through Stampin’ Cut & Emboss Machine.
- Arrange the Lemon Lime Twist fruit, the Lemon Lolly fruit, flowers and leaves on the Lemon Lime Twist panel. Attach the pieces with a combination of Multipurpose Glue, Glue Dots, and Dimensionals.
5. Attach the 2 pieces of Lemon Lime Twist to the front panels and the dsp panels to the Lemon Lime Twist cs.
6.Before attaching the closure flaps, emboss them with the Sweet Citrus Embossing Folder. Click this LINK. for the video explaining how to create this Buckle Closure.
7.Stamp a sentiment on the scrap of Lemon Lime Twist with VersaMark ink. Sprinkle with White Embossing Powder and use the Heat Tool. Cut the sentiment in half and attach to front of card.
Decorate the Buckle Tabs with the left over fruit that you stamped, die cut and embossed.
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How to create the Buckle Closure
***Note*** The cutting measurement for triming the buckles are incorrect in the video. Cut the large one at 3″ and the smaller one at 3-1/2″
Click this LINK. for the video explaining how to create this Buckle Fold.
