Shabby Chic Birthday Card Featuring Helmar Premium Craft Glue

It's Tracey back to share a card I created featuring Helmar Premium Craft Glue.

We have a birthday to celebrate nearly every month of the year,

and I enjoy creating personalized cards to help celebrate these special days.

Listen to Your Heart

 

Tips and Techniques

My favorite adhesive for adhering paper to paper is Helmar Premium Craft Glue. I simply apply a bead of glue around the edge and swirl some in the center as shown. Turn the paper over and rub your fingers gently over the page to spread out the adhesive. When applying, you won't want to get too close to the edges to allow room for it to spread out. 

 

One of the advantages of using Helmar Premium Craft Glue is that you have a some time to adjust your paper and get it placed exactly where you want it. Because of the high solids content it will not warp your papers.

 

Helmar 450 Quick Dry Adhesive is perfect for adhering chipboard, flowers, and ribbon.

 

I spritzed seam binding with water and scrunched to achieve this lovely texture, then when dry tied a double loop bow and brushed with Distress ink. Helmar Fabric Glue holds my bow in place as well as the scrunched ends. I adore how it holds even delicate ribbon in place without bleeding through. 

 

I heat embossed Fran-tage Embossing Enamel on Leaky Shed Studio Chipboard and used Donna Salazar Mix'd Media Inx and Embossing powder for my sentiment and flourish. It can be difficult to adhere mixed media elements together like these layered chipboard pieces, however, Helmar 450 is strong enough for this job.

 

I stamped and embossed my sentiment before distressing the layers, then adhered my layers to the card base using Helmar Premium Craft Glue.

 

Leaving you with one final shot.

Helmar Products
Helmar Premium Craft Glue
Helmar 450 Quick Dry Glue
Helmar Fabric Glue

Other Products
BoBunny ~ The Avenues
Leaky Shed Studio ~ Chipboard
Wild Orchid Crafts Mulberry Flowers, Pebbles and Prima Flowers
1/2" Seam Binding - Cream; Lace ~ my stash
Stampers Anonymous - Tim Holtz Clear Stamps
Stampabilities Rubber Stamp
Donna Salazar Mixed Media Inx  and Embossing Powder
Ranger ~ Inks and Embossing Powder
Fran-tage Embossing Enamel
Donna Salazar for Zutter ~ Distrezz-it-All

 

~ Blessings ~

Tracey