Craftalong Tuesday - Hydrangea Haven birthday card

 

Hello again and welcome to another Craftalong Tuesday. This week I thought we'd use the delightful 'Hydrangea Haven' suite as it is so pretty, and to be honest I couldn't resist getting this one. Not only do you get a great set of dies with lots of possibilities in using them, but you also get a whopping 22 yes that's what I said 22 stamps. I haven't used many stamps because as you all know I can't share stamped images with you all when sending the kits out, so I've used sentiments only for my card, that way you can add your own sentiments. So let's get started with the card for today, I hope you enjoy making it .

The card is made in the book card style which can be one layer, or you can add pages inside, which is what I've done, well I've added two.....

Materials needed

Basic white thick cardstock

1 piece 4-1/8" x whole length of A4 (UK) scored at 4-1/2" and 5-7/8" - for card base

Basic white cardstock

2 pieces 4" x 5-3/4" - for the inside pages (one of them score at 1-5/16")

1 piece 3/4" x 3-3/4" - for sentiment

Gorgeous grape cardstock

1 piece 4" x 4-1/4" - front of card layer

1 piece 4" x 1-1/4" - front of card side layer

1 piece approx 1" x 5" - die cutting small flowers out

1 piece approx 2-1/2" x 2-1/2" - die cutting flower layer out

Hydrangea Hill dsp

1 piece 3-7/8" x 4-1/8" - front of card layer

1 piece 3-7/8" x 1-1/8" - front of card side layer

Old olive cardstock

1piece approx 3-1/2" x 5" - die cutting whole flower out

Mossy meadow cardstock

1 piece approx 2-1/4" x 3-1/2" - die cutting flower stem out

Seaside spray cardstock

1 piece approx 1" x 4" - for sentiment

Gorgeous grape sheer ribbon

1 piece approx 14" - to wrap around card and tie in knot

Pastel pearls

Stampin' Dimensionals

Gorgeous grape classic stampin' pad

Card Instructions

Score and burnish the card base, the front of card is going to be the section that has a score line on it.

Glue the dsp pieces to the gorgeous grape  pieces and glue flat to the front and side panel of the card base.

Wrap the ribbon around the side section, so that it is on the inside of the card and not around the back, and tie in a knot at the front.

Stamp the sentiments onto the 2 pieces for the inside of the card, making sure you know which one you want as the first page, and making sure the sentiments are to one side and not in the middle.

This is my first page as you open the card.

This is my second page which is glued flat to the back of the card before the side section is glued down.

This is how the pages will look as you open the card.

This is how the pages look once glued into place.

Glue the pages into place, the back one with no score line is glued flat to the back of the inside card, the page with the score line in, now burnished, only place glue on the front of the side section and fold the card shut, this will glue the ribbon into place and  now you can place glue onto the back of the side section glueing the whole of the side section of card together. The card will look like above picture.

Stamp the sentiment and attach to the seaside spray piece of card then attach flat to the front of the card.

Having die cut all of the different flower elements out attach them all together (before attaching the dsp flower head turn it over and using a scoring tool push the petals through to give dimension to the flower on the right side). Place the pearls onto the flower and then attach to the front of the card using dimensionals.

Glue the tiny flowers onto the front of card and then I used the teeny weeny dots that came out of the dsp flower to accent the middles using my take your pick tool to pick them up (very fiddly but I liked the end result).

That's the card finished and I have to say I was quite pleased with the end result.

Hope you liked it take care till next week and keep crafting!

Huge Crafty Hugs

Natalie xx

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Product List

Hydrangea Haven Bundle [156251] £48.50	3/8" (1 Cm) Gorgeous Grape Sheer Ribbon [154572] £6.50	Pastel Pearls [154571] £6.00
Hydrangea Hill Designer Series Paper [154570] £10.75	Sweet Ice Cream Photopolymer Stamp Set [154456] £16.00	Clear Block H [118490] £8.00
Basic White A4 Thick Cardstock [159230] £7.75	Basic White A4 Cardstock [159228] £9.00	Gorgeous Grape A4 Cardstock [147011] £8.25
Gorgeous Grape Classic Stampin' Pad [147099] £7.00	Seaside Spray A4 Cardstock [150889] £8.25	Old Olive A4 Card Stock [106576] £8.25
Mossy Meadow A4 Cardstock [133683] £8.25	Multipurpose Liquid Glue [154974] £4.50	Mini Stampin' Dimensionals [144108] £3.75
Take Your Pick [144107] £9.00	Bone Folder [102300] £6.50	Paper Snips [103579] £9.25
Paper Trimmer [152392] £23.00	Mini Stampin' Cut & Emboss Machine [150673] £56.00

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