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Serendipity Card 2
By Helen | January 1, 2008
Today I wanted to play with the different flower petal stamp sets and came up with an idea for a 6″ x 6″ card.
Supplies:
- Serendipity Collection
- One sheet Bamboo Cardstock (not included in Serendipity Collection)
- Basic supplies (adhesive, paper trimmer, scissors, and so on)
- Sponge Daubers
- Bamboo, Chocolate and Dutch Blue Ink Pads
- Blocks for Stamps
- Optional: Victorian Snowflake sentiment stamps
From the second sheet of Dutch Blue Textured Cardstock I cut a 6″ x 12″ strip, then cut that down to (2) 6″ x 6″ pieces - I’ll set one aside for something else and use one for the front of the card.
I want to take advantage of the two colors of the textured cardstock. How? What about a nested mat? That’s it! I take the 6″ x 6″ piece and position it in my Fiskars Paper Trimmer such that the paper is aligned at the top and BEFORE I put the cutting rail down, I position the cutting blade at the 1″ mark (as shown by the arrow in the photo). This will give me a 1″ wide mat.
Since my mat is 1″ wide, I’ll slide the cutting blade down to the 5″ mark…
Now I lift the cutting rail, rotate the paper 90 degrees and repeat until all four sides of the nested mat are cut. After I cut out the middle square, I flipped it to reveal the lighter side of the textured cardstock and voila!
Now for the flower. I love how Close To My Heart designed the flower petal stamps to work together. For example, the concentric petals and the dots. See how these can be used together.
On a scrap of Bamboo cardstock stamp five of these flower petals and cut out. I attached the flower petals to the back of a medium size Chocolate diecut circle.
When I went to put the flower on the card base, the Dutch Blue flower blended in too much. I realized I had a 4″ x 4″ square of Chocolate patterned paper. I opted to cut another nested frame measuring 1/4″ wide. To do this, I cut from the 3/4″ mark to the 5 1/4″ mark along each side. Putting the card base together gave me…
Now adding the flower…needs something. Ah…more flower petals! I stamped the medium sized flower petal in Chocolate and then used the smallest solid flower petal to fill in the middle with Dutch Blue. I didn’t want the Dutch Blue to be as dark as the front petals. To make them lighter, I inked up the stamp, stamped it in scrap paper and then stamped on my petal.
I had a piece of 1/4″ x 6″ Dutch Blue Circle/Flower paper remaining from making previous cuts. I added that in the bottom (using the reverse side of the paper). I toned it down a bit by using a sponge dauber with Bamboo ink. One last thing - stamped the tiny flower in Dutch Blue on a scrap of Bamboo cardstock, cut out and adhered with the words (from the Victorian Snowflakes stamp set).
Topics: Cards, Serendipity |
January 6th, 2008 at 2:18 pm
I like the layering on the flower petals. Nice touch. =)
January 6th, 2008 at 6:58 pm
Helen, you know how I love stamping my own cards. This card really pops!