Hey everybody, happy Tuesday! I hope your week is off to a nice start! I’m up on the CutCardStock blog today with a tutorial for making a stenciled birthday card. Birthday cards seem to be needed more than cards for any other occasion, so I came up with a design that would be easy to mass-produce to have multiples on hand. Plus I love a shaped card, so that’s a bonus! I used several products from my stash along with a variety of cardstock from CutCardStock which I’ll list below. I really love how this turned out!

I won’t go into a whole lot of detail here, so be sure to see my tutorial on the CutCardStock blog if you’d like to know more. I used Lessebo Pitch Black and Mantis Green for the card base and front layer. I used Emily Moore Designs Field of Flowers layered stencils along with picked raspberry, abandoned coral, fossilized amber, twisted citron, and lucky clover distress oxides to stencil the focal panel.
The sentiment pieces were cut from Poodle Skirt Pink, Lessebo Pitch Black, 80# Solar White and 165# Double Thick Solar White. The diagonal embellishing strips were cut from Poodle Skirt Pink, Flamingo and Yellow Jacket, then muted with Glama Natural Translucent vellum. I did this because the distress oxide colors on the focal panel lightened up quite a bit as they dried.

The inside panel was cut from 80# Solar White, embellished with a leftover strip of the stenciled focal panel on the front, and then layered on Mantis Green. That awesome stamp is from The Cat’s Pajamas, and that sentiment is what made this card sassy! And I love it!

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CutCardStock products used:
Lessebo Pitch Black cardstock
Mantis Green cardstock
Poodle Skirt Pink cardstock
Flamingo cardstock
Yellow Jacket cardstock
Classic Crest 80# Solar White cardstock and Classic Crest 165# Double Thick Solar White cardstock
Glama Natural Translucent Clear Vellum
Other products used:
STAMPS: The Cat’s Pajamas Sassy Birthday stamps
INK: Ranger distress oxide inks- picked raspberry, abandoned coral, fossilized amber, twisted citron, and lucky clover; Versafine Onyx Black ink
DIES/PUNCHES: Crafter’s Companion Die’Sire Ruth Create-A-Card dies, Emily Moore Designs Short & Sweet Happy Birthday dies
ACCESSORIES: Fiskars 12″ ProCision Rotary Bypass Paper Trimmer, Spellbinders 12×12 Scoring Board, Emily Moore Designs Field of Flowers Layered Stencils, Taylored Expressions Stick & Stamp Mat, Ranger-Wendy Vecchi 12″ Make Art Stay-tion, My Sweet Petunia Precision Glue Press, Bearly Art Precision Craft Glue, TapeRunner Dots Double-Sided Adhesive Tape, Mini MISTI, Big Shot, Scrapbook Adhesives Adhesive Sheets and Thin 3D Foam Squares Black Mix, green gemstones
I hope you’ve enjoyed today’s project and you’re inspired to get crafty! Be sure to check out all the awesome cardstock and other goodies at CutCardStock (adhesives, labels, stickers, pens, watercolors and ribbon to name a few). And head on over to the CutCardStock Pinterest Page and CutCardStock Facebook Page and for more inspiration! Also, be sure to join our Creating with CutCardStock Facebook Group for even more crafty inspiration! Thanks so much for stopping by today – we’ll see you next time!
Scrappy hugs,
































