Today's card is a birthday greeting, inspired by Seize the Birthday's "Double Frame" challenge. I'm running short on birthday cards and have several birthdays coming up this next week, so this was a good opportunity to catch up a bit.
I'm really fond of this rubber stamp sun image from Hero Arts, and have used it several times over the past couple of years. I decided I wanted to make a CAS card with the double frame from the same watercolor stock as the card base. I die cut a base frame and a frame from the same stitched rectangular die and then a 3rd stitch edged rectangle from a stripe cardstock scrap, and attached all but the top layer to the face of the card base. I stamped the sun twice with black ink - each time in different tones of gold card stock to coordinate with the stripe background. The sun rays were fussy cut as was the face. I touched up the face with white gel pen, pink Prismacolor, and red felt pen and glued the face over the sunray image. Finally I glued on the sun and top frame. I looked at it for a while to decide whether I needed to add anything else, but decided to keep it more plain.
Here's a photo of the image and frames up a little closer, plus the inside of the card with an old PTI sentiment that I've used before with this sun image.
Seize the Birthday: Seize the Birthday #336-Double Frame
Added October 22, 2026:
Terrific take on the challenge! I like the sun shining under the edge of the frame!
ReplyDeleteI also love that sun. So creative to have him peeking from the frame. I love the uniqueness of this birthday card!!! Thanks so much for playing with us at Seize the Birthday!
ReplyDeleteThis is a lovely card, Fran and it would look great in any color. I love the way you tucked the sun behind the frame. Such a clever design. Thanks for sharing with us at Seize the Birthday and for using my Topping.
ReplyDeleteAbsolutely stunning card! I really love the positioning of the sun. Thanks for sharing with us at Seize the Birthday!
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