DT Seguras Crafts: Birthday Card for a Teenager Boy

 

Dear scrappers,

Here is my next design for the company: Seguras Crafts.

Just as a reminder, this month Seguras Crafts is dedicating this “Twinkle Toes and Tails” set to the Lupus Awareness Month:

My son is turning 18, so I decided to make a birthday card for him. It is kind of hard to make a card for a grumpy teen boy, but Seguras Crafts soon-to-be-released stamp, Emotions and Opposite is perfect to express my feelings toward my son and reassure him that his feelings are valid.

I also used this sketch as inspiration to make my card:

To follow the sketch, I die cut two different tags for the main part: I used the Cloud of Hope from Seguras Crafts printed papers (finally out) for the bigger tag and the punched scallop circle accent and white (CTMH) cardstock for the smaller tag (Tattered Lace dies). I used tranquil tide for the background and mystic grace purple cardstock for the strip. I chose the two images from the stamp set I saw to reflect my son’s emotions (sometimes quick to anger/ grumpy and most times my chill boy) and the sentiments to reflect his states:

I really like the unified hands, with the hart inside, are perfect for our small family of 4, all united to help each other through the good and the bad times. I stamped on either Cloud of Hope (for the scalloped punched circle) or white cardstock (CTMH) using StanzOn and the stamping platform.

I also cut the Happy Birthday sentiment out of Anthracyte cardstock and glued it to the inside of the card along with die cut and stamped rectangle. 

I made a little video of my process:

I hope you join me in checking Seguras Crafts and following the other amazing design team members. 

And remember the team logo, “Together we create for mental health”

I’m also joining the following challenges:

aaa birthday: game-73-anything-birthday-goes-our-6th anniversary

paper craft crew: pcc622-vertical-sketch-challenge

kimsconjurerofdreams: conjurer-of-dreams-challenge-8-anything

crafting a cut above: may-anything-goes-with-die-cut

neglected stuff: neglected-stuff-may-2025-challenge

Tattered Lace bigger tag die and happy birthday die

crafty calendar challenge: may-challenge 'For A Child’

love those pretty papers: atg-using-pretty-patterned-paper-may

https://kcclayoutchallenges.blogspot.com/2025/05/lm-752-tic-tac-toe-board-4.html

2+ papers, circle and blue

heroarts: stay-crafty-with-a-blog-named-hero-may-2025-challenge