My cards tend to be rectangular or square. I rarely make shaped cards, but they are actually really fun to create. The theme of the latest challenge at Create a Smile is shaped cards, so I went through my stash of products and decided to make a wreath using the beautiful leaves from the Time to say thanks stamp set.
I embossed some of the leaves in yellow, aqua and pink on Lawn Fawn’s “Mermaid” and Simon Says Stamp’s “Banana” and “Cotton Candy” cardstock. I also embossed in pink and gold on matching vellum from the “DIY Party”pad by We R Memory Keepers and on a thicker 40LB vellum by Bazzill.
Then I glued some of the leaves, to the donut shaped card panel that I cut by hand, with doble sided tape and others with foam dots. I placed most of them in uneven numbers; 5 pink leaves, 5 aqua-colored leaves, 3 large gold leaves, and so on.
The sentiment, from the Clear Wrap it Up stamp set is gold embossed on a DIY vellum banner. Just take a long strip of vellum and score it twice on each edge, then fold them in Z shapes and finally cut the fishtails.
Here’s one more picture of my colorful shaped card (my last project with a summer palette for this year) and here’s a link to another card in which I used leaves and vellum. I hope that you head on to the Create a Smile blog and check out what my design team mates and guest designers made and join us for a chance to win a gift certificate of 25€ to the online store.
Just click here or on the challenge banner above to get there. Have a great day! ^_^
List of products
- Lawn Fawn MERMAID Cardstock LF1121
- Price: $5.99
- Simon Says Stamp Card Stock 100# SURF BLUE SB21
- Price: $4.99
- Simon Says Stamp Card Stock 100# COTTON CANDY CC16
- Price: $4.99
- Bazzill 40 LB VELLUM 8.5 x 11 White 25 Sheets
- Price: $17.49
- Simon Says Stamp Card Stock 100# BANANA Yellow B32
- Price: $4.99
- Tsukineko Versamark EMBOSS INK PAD Watermark VM-001
- Price: $8.19
- Kool Tak DOUBLE-SIDED TAPE Clear Foam Adhesive
- Price: $8.49
- 3M Scotch DOUBLE-SIDED FOAM TAPE Permanent 7504
- Price: $56.99
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