Thursday, September 5, 2013

Shoppe Window Cardie for Mum!

     
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Just a quick post today to show you this card that I had so much fun making.  For Mother's day (you will remember if you read this blog) that I made the dresser card (here is the backlink to that posthttp://tincanhandmade.blogspot.com/2013/05/cards-cuts-and-amazing-things-you-can.html).  So I thought it would be kinda fun to keep that brickwall theme.  I am envisioning that eventually mum will have a collection of  brickwall room cards, for every room in a fantasy house.

A week or so ago Redanne posted this awesome card that she came up with that I so loved. (Check out Anne's Chemist here ttp://bollyanne.blogspot.co.uk/2013/08/the-chemist.html).  This is how the inspiration for this birthday card began.    I really loved Anne's idea of a window that you looked through - my mind immediately started seeing a fun idea. 


I wanted the card to look like a cheery shop window with a flower box, and a message- complete with a stripy awning.  I mean who doesn't like a stripy awning. awning window 009
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I filled the flower box with handrolled flowers and the greenery is Gold Christmas tinsel that I painted with Mowed Lawn distress paint and Forrest moss Distress Ink.  The flowers were tiny and painful to work clunky fingers around but they were surprisingly easy to do. 
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I used a scalloped edged scissors to cut one end of the awning and a corner punch for the top of the awning.  I folded that into shape.  I saw a more complicated version of this on youtube a while back but I cant remember where so I cant give credit to whom it is due.

I faux-glassed the window with acetate and wrote "Happy Birthday" on the shop window with a popart marker.  I love these markers - too bad I cant find them in my town mall anymore.

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I wanted the closed card to look as if there was a window blind hanging on the inside of the window.
When you open up the card - I wanted the inside to look as if you were looking at a wall with drawn blind. 

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I cut out little frames and drew tiny "wall art" that I framed in the gilded metal effect (you can find the backlink to that tutorial herehttp://tincanhandmade.blogspot.com/2013/08/distress-paint-alchemy-turning.html).  

I also stuck on a few charms to look like wall hangings. 
The blind functions as a message and gift card holder.

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Anyway - like I said - quick post today.