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My name is Natalie and I love anything to do with card/paper. I have been a papercrafter for many years now and I never get bored playing with all the wonderful products available. I've been married to my wonderful husband Nathan for 35years now and we are still very much in love with each other as the first day we met each other. We have 3 wonderful children and 5 gorgeous grandchildren so we have lots to be thankful for. Since joining Stampin' Up! in 2018 I've grown so much in confidence with myself and I even tackle technology, which for me is a huge step to have taken, but I'm getting there slowly.

Monday 13 July 2020

SUOC 253 : Animals Whale of a time





Hello again everyone and thankyou so much for sparing the time to pop on to my blog and have a look at my project today, I really do appreciate it.
Well today I've made this gorgeous little card for the SUOC 253 challenge and the theme for this month was animals. I thought it would be a great chance to play with this gorgeous suite again called ' Whale of a time '. The card is a relatively easy card to make so let me show you how.

Materials needed:


Whisper white thick cardstock

1p - 4 1/8" x A4 length (UK) scored in half at 5 7/8" for card base
1pc - 3/4" x 1 5/8" for sentiment 
1pc - 4" x 5 3/4" for inside of card
1pc - 1" x 5 5/8" for the embossed waterbrushed front strip


Pretty peacock cardstock

1pc - 4" x 5 3/4" for front layer


Whale of a time dsp

1pc - 3 7/8" x 5 5/8" for the front layer
1pc - 3/4" x 5 3/4" for the inside of card



Card recipe:

1. Cut, score and burnish your card base.
2. Cut the pretty peacock card piece and the dsp piece and glue onto the front of your card base.
3. Cut your strip of whisper white cardstock and emboss it through your die cutting machine using your embossing folder. Now with the large water brush apply a couple of drops of Coastal cabana ink refill onto a stampin block and water it down using the brush, now brush it all over your card piece (being careful not to wet the card too much) once your happy with the look let it dry a bit. 
4. Once the card piece is dry you can now use some daubers and just apply a little bit of Pacific point from your inkpad and Coastal cabana also, by just gently rubbing the daubers in the areas you wish to colour.
5. Glue some of the ribbon round the front of your card attaching either side onto the reverse ( less ribbon is used this way).
See the picture below.


Now you can tie yourself a ribbon and glue using a glue dot on top of the wrapped around ribbon (I made a triple bow by tying it round my fingers in a figure of eight 3 times).
6. Glue this piece using wet glue to the front of your card.
7.Cut out 3 x turtles from one of the sheets of dsp that have the turtles on and attach to the front of the card.
8. Having cut your sentiment piece of card you can now ink your sentiment stamp up using the stampin' write marker pens, I've used granny apple green, coastal cabana and pacific point for my sentiment. Just rub the brush end of the pen over the section of the stamp that you want to be that colour. Glue this on with stampin' seal.
9. Now all that is left to do is the inside, so cut your inside whisper white piece of card, glue the piece of dsp for the inside of the card to the bottom of it and then attach to the inside of your card.
 

Hope you liked the card as much as I liked making it, stay safe and keep crafting till next time.
Thankyou
Big Crafty Hugs
Natalie xx
          

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7 comments:

  1. Awww Natalie, super cute card, I love it :) this set and thepthe papers are beautiful. ;)

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  2. Thanks Anne I think it's such a gorgeous suite and I'm so enjoying using it x

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  3. So gorgeous, Natalie - I am LOVING this suite, and you've done it beautiful justice! Love those turtles! Thanks so much for playing at SUO!

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    1. Thanks Heather very kind of you to say I'm loving the challenges x

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  4. This looks such a peaceful scene - a great take on our challenge - thanks for joining us at SUO challenges

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    1. Thanks so much Fiona loving the challenges x

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  5. Your sea turtles look amazing! Thanks for playing along with us at SUO Challenges, hope to see you for our next challenge starting today!

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