Totally Epic Birthday card

So sort of a funny story behind this one. I needed a birthday card for my nephew. And I was going to make him a cupcake card. Who doesn’t love cupcakes. My husband asked me what kind of card I was making and how old was our nephew going to be. And he was like “you are not making our teenage nephew a cupcake card, your going to call you sister and find out what he is into and your going to make him a cool card”. So I did and she filled me in on a video game that I have never heard of before. Google saved me again. If you read the green letters, it spells the name of the video game.

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I wanted the card to be black and white with pops of colour. I cut the card base and panels as shown below. And added the panels to the front and inside.

I diecut 3 mechanism from the Twist Flower Pop up, I fold 2 the correct way and one in reverse. I added them to the card. The one in reverse is the one in the middle. (Karen has a video tutorial on the product page at the link ⬆️ )

I wanted to work in the name of the video game “Apex Legends” and I wanted to fill in most of the card front and this is what I came up. I die cut the letters using Mini Alphabet and Numbers

I googled “Apex Legends images” and found these. This game has a lot of characters, I tried to get as many as I could. I don’t have a colour printer so I had a print shop print them onto cardstock. I had to get creative on how to make them all fit. I trimmed and matted each one in a different colour. I added 3 to the mechanism making sure the card closes after each new addition.

I needed to make a pocket so I cut 3 frames as shown (edit they are only 3” high not 3 3/4”) layer them and add them to the pocket piece. I only had a scrap piece of the pattered paper left but it was big enough for what I needed.