Hello and welcome back! With today’s lesson I have reached the exact half of my educator program for Level 2! Five more lessons to the final challenge and I can hardly wait! I am getting more and more exited by day!

So today we start a count down!!

Today’s class is been held by Nina-Marie Trapani and her designs are amazing! She designed these cards below and that is my project inspiration for today. I truly liked her design and I decided to do something similar. I made two cards today, but they are both created with the same technique. This was a very fun and quick project and it can work with many word dies that you might have in your stash. So, let’s begin…

After I cut my color paper to size, it was time to create a pattern. For this I used slightly darker inks. This created just enough interest to the overall design without being too distracting. I then die cut the word “happy” on both of my card panels and I also die cut them using metallic paper from Tim Holtz. I used silver and gold color, but for this technique you can use any paper you have in your stash. Even glitter paper will do the trick. I then trimmed the panels, glued them to the the base of the cards and added die cuts to the negative spaces. I made sure to save little pieces as well, so I could add them to the little openings. Some might find this step to be too much, but I think that attention to details is extremely important when it comes to custom greeting cards. I then stamped a sentiment “birthday” using back permanent ink from Altenew. The complete sentiment was “happy birthday” but I cut this stamp in half and got my word that way. I think by doing this you gem more out of your stamps and you can always line them up on your acrylic block or a stamping tool and used them how it was originally planned. After that was done, I added some embellishments, and the cards were done!

I love this monochromatic look with a pop of gold and silver and the inlay technique makes these cards truly beautiful! Simple, yet so detailed. What do you think?

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Thank you for stopping by today and seeing my post. I will see you again soon with some new, cool techniques and interesting ideas.

Cheers!