Wireless Birthday Card!

What kind of birthday card could you possibly make a male teen that is totally focused and super excited about starting out on his own for the first time ever to a new out-of-state college?  Tough one, huh?!!  No ideas here, until I decided to recreate the laptop he'll be taking with him.  Suddenly it all came together, and pretty easily even!!









I started by searching Google Images for an Apple logo and keyboard.  I used these two for my project.  That saved me having to recreate them -- which could easily have taken me forever!! 











Next I cut a 4-1/2" x 3-1/4" piece of silver Bazzil Bling card stock (from Frantic Stamper of course!) to create the base for the "Mac Book". I folded it in half and rounded my corners.

For the "screen" (inside top half) of my card, I first cut a rectangle piece of black CS 2-1/4" x 3-1/4", adhered it to the inside top portion of the card and rounded the corners.  Next I cut a rectangle piece of light blue CS 1/4" smaller on all sides and rounded the corners.  I sponged the edges of the light blue CS in a darker blue to give it a dimensional look, and wrote my happy birthday note on the blue "screen" panel.  I then layered it over the black piece.  To complete the look, I cut a piece of acetate the same size as the black CS piece to cover the "screen" so it looked a little more like glass.

For the keyboard part, I printed out the keyboard image twice onto white CS.  I layered the first keyboard image onto the inside bottom half of my card base and rounded the corners.  Then I cut out just the keypad-part of the keyboard from the second image.  I adhered the keypad part onto of the keyboard using dimensionals so it was raised up a little. 

And now for the front of the card, I printed out the Apple logo, fussy cut it and adhered it to the center on the outside of my card.  I used Crystal Lacquer to create the raised and shinny logo.







I added a "happy birthday" rub on sentiment just below the logo.

The best tip for this is to use the Google images from the web -- that saved me tons of time and gave the card a more realistic look!!  As you can see, it pretty much was just basically assembly of the pieces!


TFL, I'm so glad you stopped by!