I have been looking for a reason to make a travel card and I thought this weeks Craft Roulette Card would be a good time. Karen Burniston made a Traveling Birthday Card a while back and I decide to make a card just to cheer up its recipients. Like the past few Craft Roulette challenges I also challenged myself to use a mechanism I haven’t used in a while and a die set I haven’t used before. Here are this weeks parameters…..
And this is how I met the parameters. It is an A2 sized card (which was a little hard for me as I usually make large cards), strawberry and chocolate ice cream colours. Who doesn’t love tasty ice cream, donuts or popcycles. And the squares are a hung banner. The Upsy Daisy Pop Up is a set I haven’t used in a while and the Sweet Treats Charms is the set that I haven’t used before.
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1A- cut the card base and panels as shown below. I cut the centers out of the brown paper so I could use them to cut out some of the brown treats (the other side is solid brown)
B- layer as shown. I added a solid pink panel to the back to even out the weight of the card.
2A- I diecut and assembled the Upsy Daisy Pop Up (Karen has a video tutorial on the product page at the link ⬆️ )
B- cut out the squares and layers from the same set.
3A- diecut and assemble the Sweet Treats Charms I added shading with a Versa Mark Marker, and highlights with a white Gelly Roll pen
B- add the charms to the square.
4- string the banner together using bakers twine, and add to the mechanism on the card base
5A- I combined several word sets to creat the greeting. Just Because, You’re Sweet (just Sweet), Happy Valentine’s Day ( just the word Day), and Wordset 18- Connectors . I layered the large words as shown and I added shading with a Versa Mark Marker, and highlights with a white Gelly Roll pen.
B- oops this photo is out of order. Add the words to the front and inside.
6A- using liquid adhesive and the same baking twine I added a a loop de loop to the front.
B- and one to the inside.
7- I wanted the look of brown gems so I dropped some glue blobs and added brown glitter. As it was drying I Shaped them with a metal hook tool.
8- using Karen’s card as an example I typed out, printed and cut out the card back as shown. It was a bit big so I trimmed it to fit he back of the card.
Other Tools used
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