Make A Wish

Inspiration

I really like working from a sketch, and often when I'm "stuck", I'll look through card sketches - there are LOTS of places to find them. I needed a simple card suitable to send to men - I have several male friends with birthdays in September, and none of them know each other (LOL!) so I could make several of the same one to send out.

This card is based on one from the book "Cardmaker's Sketchbook Birthday Celebration". A sketch is always a starting point - this sketch was for a 4" x 9" card with a circle in the middle with the edges of the circle cut off, but I've sized it to a 4 1/2" x 6" and used a full oval. My own design, with inspiration from the sketch.

Ingredients

Note: Finished card size is 4 1/2" x 6"

Paper

Tempting Turquoise (SU!)	6" x 9"; scored at 4 1/2, and 1 1/2" x 6", and 4" x 5"
Island Blossoms DSP (SU!)	4 3/8" x 5 7/8"
Certainly Celery (SU!)	1 3/8" x 6", and 4" x 5"

Inks

Tempting Turquoise (SU!)

Stamps

Birthday Centers (Cornish Heritage Farms)

Candle Crazy (SU!)

Accessories

Big Shot Pro (Sizzix)

Classic Ovals - Scalloped - Large (Spellbinders)

Stamp-A-Ma-Jig

ATG (Scotch)

Scor-Pal

Rotary Trimmer

Instructions

Candles

Stamp the candles in blue ink on the green strip of paper. (I will tell you that I don't use the "wheel" stamps anymore - I pull the rubber off the wheel, and use Ez-Mount to make cling stamps from them. I ink them with a regular stamp pad, and use a Stamp-A-Ma-Jig to get the stamps lined up straight. I find that much less stressful than trying to run the wheel straight across the paper...)

Mount the green strip onto the blue strip of paper.

SENTIMENT

Cut/emboss a blue oval using the largest die, and a green oval using the next sized die. Using blue ink, stamp a sentiment in the upper and lower portions of the green oval. I placed the candle strip across the oval to get an idea of where to stamp, and used the Stamp-A-Ma-Jig to stamp the greetings where I wanted them.

ASSEMBLY

Mount the patterned paper onto card front, followed by the blue oval, then the green oval. Finish up with the candle strip across the middle of card.

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