Hello again and welcome to another tuesday craft along. Im getting this blog ready on a really lovely sunny friday afternoon, although it is still quite chilly outside it is lovely to see the sun shine, as it really does make a day alot more cheery.........
So today I've got a project that I've made using no less than 5 of the really wonderful punches that Stampin' Up! offer us within their catalogues, and I don't know about yourselves but I am very fond of using punches as they are so versatile and easy to use.
'So let's get on with the project then and stop talking!' I hear you all say...............
Materials used:
Rococo rose/Bermuda bay cardstock
1pc - 5-7/8" x 8-1/4" scored at 4-1/8"
1pc - 2" x 3"
Basic white cardstock
1pc - 5-3/4" x 8" scored at 4"
1pc - 4" x 5-3/4"
1pc - 2" x 4-1/2" - banner
1pc - 2" x 3" - sentiment
1pc - 2" x 6" - flowers
Oh So Sombre DSP
1pc - 3-7/8" x 5-5/8" circle patterned
1pc - 2" x 4-1/4" plain patterned
1pc - 1" x 3-7/8" dark section plain patterned - front of card strip
1pc - 7/8" x 3-7/8" lighter section plain patterned - front of card strip
Snail mail twine combo pack
Approx 13" - white
Approx 22" - blushing bride
Approx 22" - white (for the bermuda bay card base)
Old olive cardstock - 106576
1pc - 2" x 3" - sprigs
Card recipe:
1. Fold and burnish the coloured piece of cardstock, and then do the same with the white piece and attach to the inside of the card base.
This is what it will look like on the inside of the card.
2. Glue the circle patterned piece of dsp on to the remaining 4" wide piece of white cardstock.
3. Wrap the pink twine (if you choice to do the bermuda bay card base then use white twine instead) around the card piece attaching it both ends on the reverse using adhesive tape, it should wrap around 3 times.
4. Take the smaller piece of twine fold in half cut in the middle and then tie it in a double bow ataching it whilst tying it to the thread wrapped around the card piece.
5. The 2 smaller strips of dsp get glued together and then glued flat to the front of the card piece about 2" from the top.
6. Now punch one end each of the dsp and white cardstock that measure 2" x 4-1/2"/ 4-1/4" using the banner triple punch. Glue the dsp banner on to the white banner curling the tails a bit, but only glue about halfway as you don't want them to look flat. Now placing glue on the reverse side of the white banner adhere this to the front of the card piece.
7. Glue the whole card piece to the front of the card base, using wet glue, making sure you take the backing off of the adhesive tape that is holding the twine in place, this will ensure it holds firm on the card base.
8. Punch the 3 daisies out of the larger white piece of cardstock left, using the blending tool brush a light coating of ink over all 3 of them, work from the inner to the outer of the daisies, but brush some of the ink off on to a piece of waste, before you apply it to the daisies. Give all of them a curl using the bone folder glue them together, punch a tiny flower out of the waste piece of coloured card using the confetti flowers punch and glue inside the daisy. Attach the opal round into the middle.
9. With the remaining pieces of card use the double oval punch to punch out 1 of each colour scallop oval. On the white oval stamp the sentiment, I've used the really lovely font that says 'happy birthday to you' which is from the 'Best year' stampset - which has some lovely sayings for different occasions in it. Cut the coloured oval not quite in half and glue flat up to the side of the banner and using dimensionals attach the white oval over to the left so it sits on the banner and the coloured oval.
10. Attach the flower and using the sprig punch, punch out 2 sprigs and then glue them where they need to go.
Hope you enjoyed todays project, what I loved about it was you can get different looks from using the opposite sides of the paper which is what I've done for both of my samples, and I think the way the papers graduate in colour are really effective. The best thing about this paper though is that it's one of the free items you can claim with a qualifying order throughout Sale a Bration!.
Please leave me a comment on my blog love hearing what you think, and take care till next time.......... keep crafting!
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Natalie x
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Lovely Natalie...can’t decide which colour way I like best. I tend to forget about using punches so thanks for more inspiration 😉
ReplyDeleteBeautiful cards Natalie xx
ReplyDeleteGorgeous cards, love them both and a great reminder that the sprig punch makes lovely greenery :) many thanks for sharing your beautiful cards and ideas :( x
ReplyDeleteThankyou so much Anne for your comment yes we do tend to forget that the punches we have can be used for different occasions x
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