Happy Friday. I have been crafting some holiday ornaments for our family reunion. Stay tuned for a few photos of those. But, today, I want to share a card I made for a very special friend. I used this week's sketch from Sketch Frenzy Friday. Tammy is this weeks designer of the sketch. Tammy has given us a great sketch, that I am sure you will easily be able to incorporate into your crafting.
The first thing I noticed about this week's sketch, is how versatile it is. If you follow me, you know that I am a huge fan of text paper, and those flag-ended strips. So, I really had fun with this one.
I just loved the rectangle piece at the top, but I love portrait orientation cards. This card was a labor of love. Because yeah, there are quite a few steps. But, I just love how it turned out. I cut a piece of old olive card stock, and inked the en francias background stamp with versa mark ink. I did that finger tap stamping. I didn't want all the words to be stamped. But rather a random look. I used white embossing powder and heat set the text. I inked the 'very vintage' wheel in old olive classic and ran along both sides of the card. I used a kleenex to buff the old olive classic ink off the embossed text. I did a simple machine sewn border on this main panel. I scrunched the lower right corner of the card. I thought it added a little visual surprise.
For my rectangle piece, I actually created a tag. I used the Etc. DSP for the green stripe piece. I matted very vanilla card stock. And ran a simple machine sewn border to that piece, also. I love repetition. I wanted to add a doily to the tag, but I didn't want it to 'steal the show', so I used vellum card stock and the perfect pennant die. I used crumb cake seam binding to create my multi-loop bow. I thought the neutral color would pull your eye to the top of the card. I created and adhered a button out of clay, using the button & blossom mold, to the center of the bow. I also added a pearl to the button.
For the blossoms, I cut several floral pieces with the blossom die. I bent the petals to give them some shape. I brushed whisper white craft ink along the petal edges and sprinkled on dazzling diamond glitter. I adhered the trio of blossoms to the lower edge of the vellum doily.
I wanted the bottom of the tag to have a bit of flair, so I added a trio of flags. I used very vanilla card stock and the square lattice embossing folder. to give the cardstock some texture. But I wanted to add more,. So, I repeated the machine stitching along the middle of the banners. I also topped their point of origin with another clay button and pearl.
For the sentiment, I stamped 'amazing you' from the Express Yourself stamp set, in basic black classic ink. I flagged the ends and folded the long tails. I used foam tape to lift the sentiment off the card front.
Thank you for stopping by. Leave me a comment on your opinion of machine stitching. I'd love to know what you think! And break out your cardstock and favorite stamp set, and create something using our sketch. We would really love to see what you create!
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