Hello and welcome! Thanks for popping by for another Wednesday Freshly Brewed Project.
Our theme this week is FINE ART FLORAL. It’s been a little while since I’ve used this suite.
I have seen quite a few cards recently using some interesting closure techniques. One of them used a butterfly that folds in half and slides through a narrower slit on the card front. (I am sorry that I didn’t write down the name of the crafter who shared it.)
For the closure on this joy fold card, I stamped one of the flower images from the Art Gallery Stamp Set onto a piece of Fine Art Floral DSP. Then I fussy cut the flower. The space the flower slides through was made using the Label Me Fancy Punch.
I’m not sure about the top panel yet. It is difficult to see from the photo but this layer has six different strips of washi tape. I made the washi tape! Sara Douglass, CEO of Stampin’ Up!®, shared a Facebook Live ast week showing how to make your own washi tape. Woohoo – I have missed washi. Here is how to make it – cut a piece of Adhesive Sheet to 6″x 6″ and a piece of tissue paper to the same size. Pull the backing from the adhesive sheet slowly away from one corner and align the the tissue paper then press it down. Continue to pull back the backing and attach the tissue paper. Then I stamped the images, from the Art Gallery Stamp Set, in coordinating colours. The stripes were created by drawing lines using Stampin’ Blends.
TIP: Make sure you give the inks time to dry or they will smudge.
When it was dry I cut the strips into the different widths. Then I pulled off the backing from the adhesive sheet and placed it on the Basic White layer.
When I released the closure, the flower sits nicely amongst the flowers on the DSP.
There is heaps of space inside the card to write a heartfelt birthday greeting.
Another birthday card to pop in the box – you can never have too many on hand.
Now, make sure you pop over and see what the other Freshly Brewed Projects are:
Happy stamping.
If you live in Australia, you can order any of the products I used to make this card by going to my online store. Just click on any of the images below.
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