Saturday, July 12, 2014

ME- Protected

This is the third and final card in my Stamp Trio challenge, using Mama Elephant's In My Heart stamp. This time, I wanted to play with texture and dies. I had already stamped, colored and die-cut the boy and the girl while I was making the second card, so they were ready to use.

I started by preparing my card base. I cut a sheet of Simon Says Stamp Lemon cardstock in half, and scored it for a top-folding A2 card. Using the Cuttlebug Seeing Spots embossing folder, I added a large polka dot texture to the front.

While I had my Bigshot out, I cut out the rest of the panels I would be using. I used the stitched rectangle from Mama Elephant's Femme Frames die to cut a rectangle from Simon Says Stamp's Sea Glass cardstock. I cut a piece of white cardstock with Pretty Pink Posh's Stitched Duo I die, as well as the same shape out of Doodlebug vellum. Then, I used the stitched scallop border from Pretty Pink Posh's Stitched Borders I die to cut the vellum piece.

I layered the vellum to the bottom of the white cardstock and adhered it together with a bit of glue. I tied a piece of yellow twine from Pretty Pink Posh's Summer embellishment kit around the bottom of the panel. I attached the boy and the girl from Mama Elephant's In My Heart set to the panel with foam squares.

I then adhered the panels to the card. As a last touch, I added a few flower sequins from the summer embellishment kit near the sentiment.

Supplies:
Stamp: Mama Elephant In My Heart
Ink: MFT Hybrid Ink in Black licorice, Ranger Archival Ink in Jet Black (sentiment)
Dies: Mama Elephant Femme Frames, Pretty Pink Posh Stitched Duo I, Pretty Pink Posh Stitched Borders I
Cuttlebug A2 Embossing Folder Seeing Spots
Cardstock: Simon Says Stamp Heavy Cardstock in Lemon and Sea Glass, Neenah Solar White 110lbs
Doodlebug Sprinkles vellum in Coral
Copics
Pretty Pink Posh Summer Embellishment Kit

4 comments:

  1. I love every step of your card as you described it. The finished card is precious as the sentiment implies. Thank you for sharing.

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    1. Thank you so much for your kind comment, Sharon!

      I do sometimes worry that I'm getting too wordy with my step-by-step descriptions. But if I omit some steps, I then worry that someone will read it and be frustrated that a bunch of detail was missed. I'm so glad to hear that the descriptions are working for you. It brought me a great sigh of relief. :)

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  2. So pretty! Loving the colours you have chosen and those pretty embellishments are just darling! You've rocked this challenge again!!

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    1. Thank you bunches, Kylie! Pretty Pink Posh does have some amazing embellishments. I have to restrain myself from buying the entire store (lol!). :D

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