A Wedding Latch Fold Card for The Creative Crafters #93 & Creative Creases # 108
Welcome to my one card, two challenges post. As always, the theme for The Creative Crafters challenge # 93 is always Anything Goes. This month I have a latch fold wedding card I created for my niece’s wedding. The colors she chose were black and white with pops of silver and gold. It was such a beautiful wedding!
Here’s my card:
It’s just a given that fun fold cards also post to the Creative Creases Challenge. Debbie Mageed at Secret Stamper coordinates both this hop and the challenge. Hopefully, you will be inspired to upload your own fun fold project to the challenge!
I have another latch fold card for you, but this time it’s for a birthday! You can see some of my other latch fold cards here, here, here, and here.
My Basic Template:
One of the things I absolutely love about this card is that it is so easy to change up the front of the card, as you can tell by my other posts.
Here’s the basic template that I use and revise as needed:
- I trimmed a piece of retired silver and white specialty DSP to 6 by 2-1/2 inches for the envelope flap
- Then I punched a 1-inch circle from a leftover piece of black embossed cardstock and ran it through the XYRON create-a-sticker for the envelope seal
- There is a pretty significant amount of bulk to this card, but it still fit in a medium white SU! envelope
- If this card needed to be mailed, I would put it in a small padded manila envelope for safe travels and add extra postage
Putting the Card Together:
- The absolute star of this card is the Sunflowers 3D embossing folder!
- It’s really hard to see in the pictures, but I stamped VersaMark ink on the raised side of the embossing folder
- After I wiped a 4-1/4 by 5-1/2 piece of white cardstock down with my embossing buddy, I ran it through my Cut & Emboss machine
- Then, I added clear embossing powder to the ink and heat set it with my heat tool
- Then I trimmed down the cardstock to fit the measurements of the template
- I used two 4-1/4 by 5-1/2 inch pieces of black cardstock and ran them each through the embossing folder in the Cut & Emboss machine
- Using a fairly wet white craft ink pad, I lightly swiped multiple layers of white ink onto the raised sunflowers
- I did let each layer of ink dry before I added more ink
- It was necessary to add more ink to the ink pad to get the depth of white that I wanted
- The sentiment on the front of the card comes from the Something Fancy stamp set, and I used white embossing powder on the back cardstock
- After heat embossing and cropping the black sentiment cardstock, I decided I needed to add texture to the panel so I very carefully embossed the top and bottom using the Sunflower embossing folder
- I used silver foil for mats on this card mainly because the black ribbon has silver flecks running through it
- I’ve added information for the loopy loop bow below
- Finally, I added some pearlized dots to the corners of the sentiment panel
- With that, I’d finished this coordinated wedding card, envelope, and envelope seal set
Heat-embossing HINTS:
- One of the most important steps when using embossing powder is to wipe down the cardstock using your embossing buddy, which is available in the Embossing Additions Tool kit
- Another important thing to remember is to use the sticky end of your Take Your Pick tool to remove stray flecks of embossing powder before heat embossing
- Make sure to let your embossed sentiments dry completely before trying to crop the sentiments, otherwise you might smear your beautiful embossed sentiment
- While my heat tool is warming up (especially helpful with metallic powders) I will warm the underside of the cardstock to help keep the warping to a minimum
The Loopy Loop Bow:
I was able to watch Mary Deatherage’s, from Stamps -n- Lingers, Perfectly Pears tutorial. In that video, she showed her loopy-loop bow. That’s what I used for the front of my card. I’m bow-challenged and this technique allows me to relatively easily add ribbon without adding the bulk of a tied bow. If you’ve never seen her videos, you owe it to yourself to watch them. I think she’s the Queen of the Collage. Gorgeous cards!!
Thank you for stopping by today!
Have a Peachy Day!
Sue
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