A few days ago I received an e-mail ad from the Land of Nod featuring children's bedding. As I browsed through the girls' comforters (purely for inspiration since I have no girl), I ran across the sweetest bed ensemble that inspired me to create a card. For today's CLASSroom post, I thought I would document the process and perhaps encourage you to seek inspiration from unexpected sources.
I had one more objective in making this card: a few days ago Jennifer McGuire, creative powerhouse for Hero Arts, began a Cards for Kate drive asking card makers to make cards for five-year-old Kate who has brain cancer. This card is for Kate. Would you consider making a card for Kate or her family too?
I started by choosing some Memory Box cardstock in colors approximating the comforter above.
Next I chose some CHF Scrapblocks reminiscent of the patterns in the comforter, Tulle Damask for the top, stamped in Red Pepper Adirondack ink, and Fiery Floral for the bottom, stamped in Brilliance Coffee Bean. In order to stamp a single flower from the Fiery Floral background, I used some Eclipse Tape to reverse-mask the flower.
Making the mask took a bit of fiddling; my first mask was a mirror image of what I needed, so I trimmed it and laid it on a second piece of Eclipse Tape, cutting a second hole in the same place as the first. Then I flipped the double mask upside down and taped it to my scrapblock. There is probably a simpler way, but that was how I did it.
After layering my top pattern and bottom pattern, I sewed around the card perimeter in brown thread. Next, on the green cardstock, I used one of the Fleur de Lis border dies to cut and emboss a border, through which I laced a piece of white grosgrain ribbon. This is what the strip looked like from the back after lacing the ribbon through. I find it simpler to tie a bow separately and attach it with a mini glue dot than to try to tie a nice bow through the holes in the die-cut strip.
For finishing details, I chose some small brown buttons and added a pink heart rhinestone to the center of each button.
That's is--a pink card for a sweet little girl! Thank you for visiting the CLASSroom today.
