Happy Sunday!
Today’s card is for the Global Design Project’s Theme Challenge #GDP351 and I’ve used Beautiful Shapes and Hues of Happiness from the Stampin’ Up! Annual Catalogue.
Our Inspiration
As soon as I saw the inspiration for this challenge the hexagons from the Beautiful Shapes dies and Hive 3D embossing folder sprang into my mind so knew I wanted to use them for my project. I wasn’t sure exactly where I was going when I started making the card so rather than make a video of a second version I filmed my creative process. If you click on the photo below you can watch me make the card.
Did you know you can emboss your designer series paper?
To use my chosen shape the background as well, the Hive 3D embossing folder was perfect as it adds so much lovely texture to the Hues of Happiness 12″ x 12″ designer series paper (dsp). Have you ever embossed your patterned papers? I think it works really well, especially in this instance. You have to be a bit careful if the paper you have is thin as the paper can sometimes crack.
If you ever have problems with cardstock or paper cracking in any of your embossing folders you can lightly mist with water to loosens the fibres.
Most of our dsp is double sided and I wanted to show both sides of the Hues of Happiness dsp as it’s really pretty. So I decided to make a frame for the hexagons made ith the Beautiful Shapes dies from white card. No-one would ever know that I die cut the white hexagon frames from the white layer before adding the embossed dsp. This dsp is one of my favourites from the Stampin’ Up! Annual Catalogue and you can see another simple card that I made featuring this paper by clicking here.
The flowers are trimmed (fussy cut) from another piece of the Hues of Happiness paper and were added as decoration to the shapes.
The inside is kept simple with a flower trimmed (also known as fussy cut) from more of the dsp. Both sentiments are from the Happiness Abounds stamp set.
After I finished filming I made a second card and this time I decided not to emboss the dsp because the pattern was busy enough. To make up for it I added some Gilded Flakes to parts of the frames, which looks lovely.
Supplies
Stamps:
Happiness Abounds
Cardstock and Patterned Paper:
Card #1 Fresh Freesia and #2 Flirty Flamingo 21cm x 14.8 score at 10.5cm
Basic White 9cm x 13.3cm plus strip for sentiment 10.2cm x 14.5cm for inside
Hues of Happiness paper 8.7cm x 13cm plus extra for Hexagons and flowers
Inks:
Memento
Accessories:
Simply Elegant Trim, Glossy Dots Assortment, Gilded Flakes
Tools and Adhesives:
Beautiful Shapes dies, Hive 3D Embossing Folder, Paper Snips, Multipurpose Liquid Glue, Stampin’ Dimensionals, Tear & Tape
Instructions:
- Cut and score card base
- Die cut hexagons frames
- Fussy cut flowers from dsp
- Emboss the dsp and glue to white layer
- Die cut hexagons x3 from dsp and glue frames on top
- Stamp sentiment in memento and trim
- Loop twine and add to sentiment strip with Tear & Tape
- Add shapes with glue and dimensionals
- Glue flowers in place and add sentiment with dimensionals
- Add Glossy Dots
- Finally glue panel to card base
Both cards are lovely – do you have a favourite? Please leave me a comment and let me know as I love to get feedback. Click on the box below to watch me make the card in a quick video over on my YouTube channel.
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