Hi everyone, and welcome to another Craftalong tuesday with me. Hope you're all keeping well and finding plenty to do in this not so very nice weather we've been having, and there was me thinking it was the start of spring, hopefully it's going to arrive soon!
Well what have I got for you all today?
I decided to use the rather lovely dies called 'Beautiful shapes' I'm loving the hexagonal shapes that are within this set and there is actually a stampset togo with these dies called 'Hello beautiful' but for this week, and the next I chose to just use the dies, to show you how useful they are to have in our collection of dies, so let's see how I created this weeks card.....................
Materials
Basic white thick card - 10.5cm x A4 length(uk) scored in half at 14.8 for card base
Basic white card -2 x 10cm x 13.8cm
Basci white card - scrap piece for 3 x hexagons and a strip for the sentiment
Just Jade card - scrap piece for 2 x leaves
Abstract beauty dsp - 3 different sheets for hexagons
Linen thread - loop behind sentiment
Gilded gems - 3 x for front of card
Tools
Beautiful shapes dies
Bough punch
Best year cling stampset
Abstract beauty dsp
Tuxedo black memento ink pad
Paper trimmer
Mini Stampin' cut & emboss machine
Adhesives
Multi purpose liquid glue
Tear & Tape
Dimensionals
Instructions
1. Fold and burnish the basic white card base, this is a side opening card.
2. Glue one of the basic white layers to the inside of the card base.
3. Die cut all of the hexagons needed, I had 4 yellow pattern, 5 blue, 4 flowery pattern and 3 white card.
4. Attach the 3 white card hexagons to the reverse side of the patterned hexagons, I used 1 from each pattern.
5. Starting at the top left corner start attaching the hexagons with glue onto the other white card layer, the second blue, third yellow and third flowery one of mine are attached using dimensionals. The hexagons can hang over the edge of the card layer and once finished the excess can be cut off.
6. Attach this layer to the front of the card base using glue.
7. Punch 2 of the leaves out and attach to the layer tucking them under the hexagons, you may need to snip a small bit off to get them to fit under nicely.
8. Stamp the sentiment onto the white piece of card using the black ink, cut to the size required, curl it slightly with a bone folder then using tear & tape attach the linen thread to the back and then attach to the card front using dimensionals, but only in the centre so that it retains it's curve.
9. To finish the card off add some of the gilded gems.
Adding card and dimensionals to the reverse side of 3 hexagons helps when tucking things underneath, and it also adds a bit more dimension to the card.
Hope you enjoyed todays make and found it as fun to make as I did, it was a quick and simple card to assemble, but you would be able to make it using any of your patterned dsp and these lovely, and useful dies.
Pop back next week to see what I make using the same dies and stampset.
Huge Crafty Hugs
Natalie x
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Beautiful card, Natalie, love the colours and layout, those patterned papers are gorgeous, many thanks for sharing:) x
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