Happy "4th" Tutorial

Here is my very first tutorial. I hope you like it. If you do, go make one just like it! It is so easy!!


Supplies:

• 8 1/2" x 5 1/2" Brilliant Blue cardstock, folded in half to make a standard size card (4 1/4 x 5 1/2, plus scrap
  
• 5" x 3 3/4" Whisper White cardstock, plus scrap
  
• (3) 3/4" strips of Real Red cardstock
  
• Brilliant Blue Classic Ink, plus marker
  
• Real Red Classic Ink
  
• Versamark pad
• Chipboard star
  
• Iridescent Ice embossing powder
  
• Heat Tool
• small piece of silver cord
  
• 1 long pc. and 2 short pcs. white grosgrain ribbon
  
• sponge daubers
  
• Crop-A-Dile
  
• Stampin' Dimensionals
• Tombow multi
• Anywhere glue stick
• Short Order Numbers (or any other number set, similar in size)
• Holidays and Wishes stamp set
  
• 1 1/4" AND 1 3/8 " circle punches
  

Directions:
1. Fold your 8 1/2 x 5 1/2 sheet in half, making it a 5 1/2 x 4 1/4 card base.

2. Glue the 5 x 3 3/4 whisper white cardstock down to the base, leaving a 1/2" border.




3. Glue the 3 Real Red strips to the white layer and set aside for now.

(For some reason I cut mine just a bit too short, but I didn't have any more red to use. Really, there shouldn't be a gap, but hey, I'm freestylin', anything goes!)


4. With a sponge dauber, "paint" your chipboard star using Brilliant Blue Classic Ink. All you do is slip the cute little dauber onto your painting finger ;) dip it in the ink a couple of times, then rub onto the chipboard using circular motions. Repeat as many times as needed to get it completely covered (just on the top).



5. I took a few seconds to heat set mine so it would dry a little faster. You want it to be dry before moving on to the next step. If you wanted to use Craft ink, you could actually skip steps 5 and 6.
6. Cover the entire chipboard star with the Versamark pad.
7. Sprinkle Iridescent Ice embossing powder liberally over the entire chipboard star.
Note: This is what it looks like covered in the unmelted embossing powder.
8. Heat set it with the Heat tool to melt the embossing powder and this is what it should look like. When that is done use the Crop-A-Dile to punch a hole in the star using the 3/16" hole punch.
This is what the three pieces of ribbon should look like:
9. Using a sponge dauber and the Classic ink "paint" one of the small pieces of ribbon Real Red and the other small piece Brilliant Blue. Go ahead and paint both sides, unless you just prefer to only do one. I did both.

10. Next, take the longer white piece of ribbon and tie one knot around the hole in the chipboard star and hold it in place. (btw, sorry for the blurry picture)
11. Now lay the red and blue painted pieces of ribbon criss cross over the single white knot, then go ahead and tie the second knot. When you are finished tying, turn it over and glue the back side with Tombow multi and adhere to the card.



12. On your scrap piece of whisper white, stamp the #4 in Real Red ink, the "th" in Brilliant Blue ink, then the word "happy" using a Brilliant Blue stamp n' write marker to ink only the desired word and omitting the rest.

13. Punch it out using the 1 3/8" circle punch.
14. On your Brilliant Blue scrap, punch a hole using the 1 1/4" punch, then with the 1 3/8" punch a hole around the outside of the first circle creating a "rim."

(I really hope this part makes sense! Maybe you can tell by looking at the picture!)



These are the two pieces you will have:
15. Glue the blue "rim" you created to the white piece, punch a hole using the 1/8" hole punch and thread your silver cord through. Now all you have to do is add two Stampin' Dimensionals (stack them on top of each other to make it high enough) to the back of this tag and stick it to the rest of the card.Ta-Da!!! All done! Wasn't that easy?!Here is a variation:
(This is actually the original one that I made, but when I decided to do a second one and do the tutorial with it I changed colors. Which one do you like the best?)
Well, I guess that does it for my very first tutorial. Tell me what you think! Am I a professional now??? Haha!

If you don't have these colors or embellishments, play around with it and make it all your own!

Oh, I would love suggestions on a technique you would be interested in seeing as a tutorial.........

~Kristy