Birthday Card Four Different Ways
Today's image is by Stamping Bella called:
"You Are So Sweet"
I have four birthdays coming up and so I stamped it and colored it with the same three colors - yellow, pink and aqua and then decided to come up with four different card layouts.
When trying to come up with ideas, I keep in mind four basic ways to design cards:
- With a background paper
- With a frame
- With a border
- With die cut shapes
Here is the image that I colored, some slightly different ways with the same three colors:
And here are the four cards completed.
And now here are the separate cards so you can see them closer up and in more detail:
This first one I combined an oval die shape with patterned paper (bottom of card) and a border that matched the paper.
I matched the paper to the colors in the image. Usually I color the images after I find the paper that I like (much easier). So this card has the background paper and a die shape and a border.
The Second one I used patterned paper and die cut a larger frame in the middle of it and then used a smaller square in blue and cut out a slightly smaller frame out. I then lined them up and glued it all together. So this one has the background patterned paper and a die cut frame from a fancy shape.
The third card, I die cut out a fancy frame in white. And because I didn't think of stamping it directly on the frame at the time, I cut out a slightly smaller rectangle and glued it inside the frame. So this one has a frame and a simple rectangle shape.
The last one I cut the image with a simple rectangle shape and placed on top of paper that coordinated with the color I used int he dress and lollipop and then placed tiny triangles that matched the other color in the dress at the corner.
This one has the rectangle shape and background patterned paper and then triangle borders at corners.
I hope this gives you ideas on how to use the same image in different ways.
