Happy Tuesday! Carolyn Peeler here with a brand new card project for your Tuesday enjoyment. Today's card features embossing, vellum, sewing and a wee dash of patterned paper. It is simple, fast to pull together and would be lovely to give.
First, gather your first few supplies:
Chocolate Malt Cardstock, The Archivist paper pad, and the Chevron embossing folder. (All products will be linked at the end of this post.)
Next, cut a piece of the Chocolate Malt cardstock 4" x 6". Sandwich it in the embossing folder and emboss it. Unfortunately the We 'R Memory Keepers folder I used on this sample is now sold out. However, a great substitution would be the Tim Holtz folder linked at the bottom of this post.
Next, choose a paper from the Archivist 6x6 paper pad. I chose the tan, small scale, floral. Cut it 5.25" high x 4.25" wide to form your card base.
Trim your embossed cardstock so that it is 4" high x 4.25" wide, then glue it to the patterned paper card front. Aligning it so that the bottom edges of the papers line up.
Gather the supplies you will need to get for the next few steps; Walnut Stain Distress ink, Kraft tag, and vellum from which you have cut a feather. The vellum is actually the negative left over from when I made THIS project, 2 weeks ago (after all, what crafter likes to throw scraps out?! I usually hoard them until I find a use for them!)
After putting the tag and vellum onto the card front, I decided that I didn't want it to be a traditional A2 card size as the tag and vellum were a bit lost on such a large background. So, while I kept the same card height, I cut the background down to 3.75" wide.
Using the ink applicator and the Walnut Stain ink, distress the edges of the card and tag.
Next, tie a piece of paper string around the top of the kraft tag, then glue the tag to the card front. While holding the vellum in place, use your sewing machine to sew the velum onto your card front. I tend to like the texture sewing adds to a project, so I decided to do a rustic zig-zag stitch on the left side of the vellum to add visual interest.
The final step in the outside decoration was to add the greeting. Using the Tim Holtz Deco Type stickers, I stuck them onto the lower left of the card. In order to line the letters up properly, I usually stick the bottom 1/8 of a sticker onto a ruler, then, once everything is lined as I want, I bring the ruler over to my project and stick the letters down by holding the top portion of the letters onto the project and gently pulling the ruler out from the bottom.
The final step is to add a card base to the project, so I cut a piece of Cream cardstock 5.5" high, and 8 inches wide. I folded it in half, then once folded, cut it so that it was 3.75" wide. At that point I rounded the corners of the cardstock and also of the card front. Then I glued those 2 things together.
Thanks for joining me today. I hope that you enjoyed this clean and simple card project. Please let me know if you have any questions in the comment field. In the meantime, here is a link to the products used in today's card:
