Favourite Card...

Well it's day two of the launch of the new Die'sire embossing folders from Crafter's Companion.

Fantastic launch show last night on Ideal World with the crafty Leann Chivers. We new is was going to be busy, but wow did you snap them up.

Leann kindly name checked one of my cards. She very kindly said it was ''amazing'', ''one of my very, very favourites'', ''incredible'' and ''very beautiful''.

 

The card is a very simple and an easy card to do, so if you're new to card making it's a perfect project.

Select the card as you basis, I used some hammered cream card. I created a layer of pearalised pink card and onto that a patterned paper from K&Company. This paper is a floral pattern of brown and pink. I used this as the colour palette/theme of the card.

The main layer of the card is plain cream card which was cut to size. Using a Kanban floral stamp I inked the relevant parts of the flower. The flowers/petals in pink and the branches and leaves in brown by just simply stamping the ink pad onto the stamp. Once image was stamped, embossed with clear embossing powder.

Once the embossed image was dry I ran the image through my embossing machine in the Argyle A4 embossing folder from the Die'sire range at Crafters Companion...a hot favourite of mines and was a top seller on the launch night.

Using the Die'sire Lace Border 1, die I cut one strip in the same pink and brown floral paper from K&Company I used for my matt and layer and attached.

I used a piece of pink ribbon with the edge stitching in cream to pull everything together (and to cover the join). I attached the ribbon to the card with the thinnest of the ultra sticky red tape. Used by bow maker to tie a bow, tweaked it until I was happy with the shape and attached to the card. Chose a small pink button and threaded a piece of pink bakers twine through the centres of the buttons and tied, leaving a small tail at each end overhanging the button. Attached the button to the centre of the bow with Collall silicon glue. The bow was attached on top of the ribbon length again with Collall silicon glue.

Twist the tails of the ribbon into place and secure to the card with the thinnest of the red ultra sticky tape - love this look as it creates dimension to your card. A simple, yet very affective technique.

The sentiment was stamped onto a piece of the same plain cream card in brown ink and embossed with clear powder. The sentiment is from 'A Little Bit Sketchy A5 Stamp Set - Only words - From the Heart by Sheena Douglas. Once dry the sentiments was cut out by hand and attached to the card with Collall sillison glue.

And that's it...

I hope you enjoy making this card but if you want to get hold of the Argyle folder you'll need to be quick.