Friendly Foliage for MMM #265 & SSC373
Welcome to the newest Make My Monday bi-weekly challenge #265. Our host, Pamela, chose Gratitude or Thankful for the theme. I used a piece of DSP (designer series paper) from the Gathering Together 12 x 12 inch DSP, which can be found in the online exclusives.
When you finish here, please visit the challenge site to see what the rest of the very talented design team members created. Then, don’t forget to upload your creations to our gallery. We look forward to seeing your creations there!
Here’s my card:
I needed to take the picture with the card almost laying down in order to have the gold embossed sentiment show up in the picture.
Here’s a look at the card standing up:
Here’s the Sunday Stamps sketch banner:
I’ve already posted a card using this sketch, which you can find here.
As I was enjoying all the cards entered into the MMM # 264 challenge, I came across Bonnie Lynn’s card and found a new-to-me challenge: Never-Before-Used-Schtuff! Since I’ve never used the Friendly Foliage bundle, I am going to be adding this card to that challenge. How fun!
Measurements:
- Trim a piece of Cajun Craze cardstock to 8-1/2 by 5-1/2 inches, and score at 4-1/4 inches to create a tent card
- Choose a background DSP and trim it to 4-1/8 by 5-3/8 inches
- I used a strip of the Cajun Craze 6 x 6 inch DSP for the bottom, and I trimmed that piece to 1 by 5-3/8 inches
- I find it easier to adhere strips like this over the bottom of the background DSP rather than try to fuss with measurements to create the size I need
- Trim a piece of coordinating DSP to 1 by 5-3/8 inches for the bottom of the inside of the card
- I trimmed a piece of the Cajun Craze DSP to 6 by 2-1/2 inches for the envelope flap
- Then I punched a 1-inch circle of the background Gathering Together DSP and ran it through my XYRON create-a-sticker for the envelope seal
- Trim a piece of Basic Beige cardstock to 4 by 5-1/4 inches for the inside of the card
- I used scraps of Cajun Craze and Basic Beige cardstock for the foliage rectangle & sentiment banner on the front of the card
Another Quick Card:
Since I’d already created a card using the Sunday Stamps template, this card fell into place quickly.
- I stamped the foliage from the Friendly Foliage stamp set using Cajun Craze ink on the Basic Beige cardstock
- After wiping down a scrap of Cajun Craze cardstock with my embossing buddy, I stamped from last year’s September Paper Pumpkin kit in VersaMark ink
- Then, I covered the ink with WOW! metallic embossing powder and heat set it with my heat tool
- Next, I cropped the sentiment using one of the Stylish Shapes banners and the foliage with the coordinating Friendly Foliage die
- Unless otherwise noted, I used multipurpose liquid glue to adhere pieces together
- First, I adhered the background DSP, then added the striped Cajun Craze DSP to the bottom
- HINT: I just barely missed lining up the striped DSP perfectly with the background DSP, so I used my Cajun Craze marker to add some color to the tiny piece of the background DSP showing on the bottom
- I have some of the gold faux leather trim left, so I adhered it to the line where the two DSP patterns meet
- In order to add more gold to the two cardstock pieces, I used my (almost dry) gold Wink of Stella brush to outline both the sentiment and the foliage, which created subtle gold edges
- I added dimensionals to the back of the foliage box and the sentiment and added them to the front of the card, using liquid glue to adhere the overlapping sentiment banner
- Once those pieces were adhered to the front, I finished the car with some (retired) ribboned enamel dots
- I stamped the sentiment for the inside in Cajun Craze ink, added the strip of the Cajun Craze DSP to the bottom, and adhere the inside of the card
- With that, I’d finished this coordinated card, envelope, and envelope seal set
Thank you for stopping by today!
Have a Peachy Day!
Sue
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