The Watercooler Wednesday WWC163 Linsky is open until 5:00pm Mountain Time on Monday April 2nd, 2018. If you're looking to get a head start on your Christmas cards, challenges like this are a perfect way to get them done. I hope you'll join in with your own creation, and also check out the beautiful cards created by our very talented Design Team.
Inspiration:
My inspiration for this weeks card came from one I made in a class held by Cheryl LeFore, using the Good Tidings stamp set and featuring the Eclipse Technique. I thought it would be fun to make one using the Merry Patterns stamp set. Here's the Original Card:
Here's My Card:
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I love how the Eclipse stamping and lettering merge and give the front of this card so much dimension. |
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| The inside of the card is special because the stamped panel is designed to hold a gift card. |
Stamp sets: Merry Patterns(R), Hearts Come Home #145416
Ink: Cherry Cobbler and Garden Green
Card Stock: Cherry Cobbler, Garden Green and Very Vanilla
Accessories: Big Shot, Paper Trimmer, EK Success Alphabet (1 1/4" dies), Foam Strips, Basic Rhinestones, 1" Circle Punch, Tom Bow Glue
How It's Made:
1. Cut an 8 1/2" x 5 1/2" piece of Cherry Cobbler for the base and score it at 4 1/4".
2. Cut two 5 3/8" x 4 1/8" pieces of Garden Green for the first layer on the card front and inside.
3. Cut a 5 1/4"" x 4" piece of Very Vanilla cardstock for the stamped layer. Using Cherry Cobbler and Garden Green inks randomly stamp a pattern using the deer and branch images from Merry Patterns.
4. Place the stamped piece on the big shot platform and place the "N" "O" "E" and "L" die cuts in the center of the design. The letters should be close together, almost touching, and in a straight line. Run through the big shot and remove the letters. Adhere the stampled panel to the Garden Green layer.
5. Using a scrap of Garden Green card stock cut a second set of letters and adhere them to the backs of the patterned letters. Attach Foam Adhesive Strips to the backs of the letters.
6. Before removing the backings on the foam strips temporarily place the letters into the negative image slots left on the patterned paper when the dies were cut out. Adhere the center of the "O" carefully realigning it through the center of the foam mounted "O" to the negative space.
7. Once the "O" center is in place, remove the adhesive backings and carefully place the letters in the negative spaces pressing down to adhere.
8. Finish off the front of the lettering with some randomly placed Basic Rhinestones.
9. Cut a 1 1/2" x 4" and a 5 1/8" x 4" piece of Very Vanilla for the inside card panels.
10. Stamp the sentiment "Wishing You a Beautiful.........." from the Hearts Come Home stamp set in Cherry Cobbler. Stamp a couple of boughs in Garden Green to the bottom right hand side of this panel. Adhere to the Garden Green layer.
10. For the gift card holder, stamp the boughs and deer images on the 1 1/4" x 4" piece of Very Vanilla and then cut a half circle from the center right with the 1" circle punch. Add adhesive to the back side on the top, bottom and left hand side and adhere to the larger panel.
It may look like a lot of work, but really this is a very straight forward card to make and it's got a really "wow" look to it. If you haven't tried out the Eclipse Technique yet I urge you to experiment with it. You're going to find that it's fun and I'm sure you'll have fun with it. Don't worry if you don't have any alphabet dies, just try the same technique with any punched shape or die cut. Experimentations the key!
Thanks for visiting my site. I hope you'll let me know what you think of this card. I love receiving comments on my work. If you haven't already checked out the other Design Team entries here's a link to the WWC163 challenge. I hope you'll drop by again. In the meantime.....
Happy Stamping!
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