Hello crafty pals, I had a bit of fun making this card. It is the card that I made for Karen Burnistons June design team challenge. This month’s challenge is “Flag Colours” we were to use colours from our country’s flag 🇨🇦, so that meant I had to make a red and white card. This made for a bit of a challenge, as I only had smaller scraps of red cardstock. I live in a small community with no place to purchase cardstock. What’s a girl to do 🤷🏻♀️. I checked out my Dollarama hoping for the best. I had to think outside the box, or should I say bag….
…so, I was just about to give up when a flash of red caught my eye, and low and behold I saw these bright red gift bags. Score!!!! I even found matching ribbon. Once I got home I found this red and white patterned paper in my stash. From a distance it looks like tiny maple leafs but they are little flowers.
I started by making a white gate fold card using the dimensions below.
I cut out the red panels from the gift bags to the dimensions below.
I added the red 5” x 7” to the back of the card, next largest panel to the inside, and the smaller panels to the front and back of the gate folds.
I cut out patterned paper panels to the dimensions below. I added the large panel to the inside and the smaller panels on the front and back of the gate folds.
I cut 2 of the mechanism from the Twist Flower Pop up . I folded one the proper way and I folded the other one the opposite way. I attached them to the card base as shown.
I cut out and assembled the flowers from the Twist Flower Pop Up, and the Fun Flowers. Using an alcohol marker I added shading to the bottom right, and white Gelly Roll Pen highlights to the top left. I cut out the labels from the Rectangles and Labels Crosshatch and added shading and highlights. I stamped the greeting from the Stage Scenes Clear stamps with red ink. Because the red pieces are all cut from the gift bag, the core is white so I used a red alcohol markers around all the edges. It gave it a much nicer finish.
I added the flowers to the card base as shown.
I wanted to have a closure on the front so I wrapped a band around the front, I had to use a few pieces because I didn’t have one long enough. I wrapped a piece of ribbon as well. I used sticky strip tape on the end of the ribbon and folded it over itself to keep the end from fraying. Before I glued down the right side I glued down a few small magnets. They are not very strong so I didn’t think they would hold under cardstock so a I just kept them under the ribbon.
To make sure the magnets lined up correctly I placed the magnets over the magnet that are under the ribbon and added glue dots to the tops of them. I lined up the label to where it would be placed and pressed down to transfer the magnets to the label. Label pieces are from the Rectangles and Labels Crosshatch. Again, I added shading with an alcohol marker and highlights with the Gelly Roll Pen. I covered the magnets with a piece of ribbon then adhered it to the left side of the gatefold.
I cut the Happy Birthday from red and the Happy Birthday Shadow from white and added it to the label, then added a couple of the same flowers from the inside.
I decided to add more flowers to the mechanisms.
Because I added so many highlights to the red pieces I decided to add little highlights to the little flowers. On closer inspection the centre of the flowers are a pinkish colour so I added a bunch of little white pen dots to the inside to give the impression that they are white.
Other Tools used
Gelly Roll White Retractable Pen
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