Craftalong Tuesday - All squared away

 

Hello again everyone, and welcome to another Craftalong Tuesday. Today I have a rather cute card for you using the very clever All squared away bundle. This bundle consists of a stampset with some rather sweet sentiment stamps in and 4 square images which are great for stamping straight onto the card and making backgrounds with. Also in this bundle you get dies which cut out 4 different square panels that can be used for card toppers, and the square waste piece of card can also be used as an apperture for your card too, and  along with these there are also some extra flowers to embellish with.................I think it's a very versatile bundle!

For todays card I'm using just the 2 square die cut panels along with one of the sentiment stamps, cut into different sections to give a different look.

So let's begin............

Materials needed:

Basic white thick cardstock -  1pc  21cm x 14.8cm scored on longside at 10.5cm 

                                                      for the cardbase

Basic white cardstock - 3pc  8.4cm x 12.8cm for the front of card layer and for the inside                                                - both sides                                                                                                                                                  2pc 5cm x 5cm for die cutting of the square panels                                                                        Scrap piece for the stamping of sentiment

Pansy petals dsp - 1pc  8.8cm x 13.2cm for the front of card layer

Calypso coral cardstock - 1pc  5cm x 5cm for layer underneath the die cut square                                                              1pc  2.5cm x 2.5cm cut in half corner to corner for the triangle                                                  section on the front of card                                                                                                                  Small scrap piece for die cutting of flower

Pale papaya cardstock - 1pc  5cm x 5cm for the layer underneath the die cut square                                                         1pc  2.5cm x 2.5cm cut in half corner to corner for the triangle                                                    section on the front of card                                                                                                                   Small scrap piece for the die cutting of flower

Pretty flowers embossing folder - for embossing the large coloured squares

Champagne rhinestones - 3 for front of card

White bakers twine - for double bow on front of card

Instructions:

1. Fold and burnish the cardbase and glue the 2 pieces of basic white card to the inside of card.

2. Glue the other basic white layer to the piece of dsp, cut the 2 small square coloured cardstock pieces in half (corner to corner) and then attach one of each colour to the reverse side of your layers, now attach to the front of the card flat using glue.

3. Emboss the large coloured squares, die cut the 2 basic white squares and then attach together using glue, leave some of the leaves and flowers not glued so that they can be slightly curled, giving them a bit of depth. These are now attached to the front of the card using dimensionals.

4. Having die cut 2 flowers one from each colour cardstock, give these a slight curl using the bone folder and then with a small amount of glue attach them onto the flowers that are within the die cut squares, alternating the colours with the embossed background squares..

5. Stamp the sentiment, I stamped it twice, once in each colour of the inks, I used Pale papaya and Calypso coral, and then fussy cut the words out so that I had different colours, again alternating the colours. These can be given a slight curve and then attached to the card using glue.

6. With a length of the twine folded in half tie a bow, having it folded will give you a double bow, this was then attached using glue.

7. Attach the rhinestones to the centres of the flowers and one on the card and that is the card finished.

Hope you enjoyed todays project, I just love the depth you can get using these delicate die cut squares, without having to do an awful lot to achieve it!...................

Until next time

Huge Crafty Hugs

Natalie x

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 Product List

All Squared Away Bundle (English) [158382] £41.25	Pansy Petals 12" X 12" (30.5 X 30.5 Cm) Designer Series Paper [155807] £10.75	Basic White A4 Cardstock [159228] £9.00
Basic White A4 Thick Cardstock [159230] £7.75	Calypso Coral A4 Card Stock [124392] £8.25	Calypso Coral Classic Stampin' Pad [147101] £7.00
Pale Papaya A4 Cardstock [155669] £8.25	Pale Papaya Classic Stampin' Pad [155670] £7.00	Baker's Twine Essentials Pack [155475] £10.25
Champagne Rhinestone Basic Jewels [151193] £5.50	Pretty Flowers Embossing Folder [155428] £7.00	Paper Trimmer [152392] £23.00
Bone Folder [102300] £6.50	Paper Snips [103579] £9.25	Take Your Pick [144107] £9.00
Stampin' Dimensionals [104430] £3.75	Multipurpose Liquid Glue [154974] £4.50	Stampin' Cut & Emboss Machine [149653] £112.00

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