When does a card
cease to be a card and become a gift?
Maybe when it is an exploding hexagon card with a cake topper inside
like the one I have to share today featuring the gorgeous Forever Yours from Tiddly Inks on the lid.
This card gift is
going to a colleague who got engaged, I’d like to say recently but it’s taken
me a while to get my butt into gear and this card made. I was inspired by this lovely Christmas exploding hexagon card made by my crafty friend Jenny Dix. Go check out her fab card and while you’re
there take a look around her blog, she does amazing work and has lots of great
tuts, including for this hexagon box.
The top follows
the current sketch over at Die Sketchtanten.
I just flipped it and changed the shape to a hexagon and swapped the
small circle embellies for flowers. I
added in the couple’s initials on the top around the edge with some more
flowers. There are die cuts, more
flowers and embossed stamping around the sides to complete the outside.
Guess I’d best
show the exploding part of this card, the top layer features three more
beautiful images from Tiddly Inks, Forever, Love You Mostest and You and Me.
The centrepiece is actually a cake topper I found when I went Googling for a figurine to go inside, it’s from Willow Tree and called Around You and I was lucky enough to find one in Australia from Lil’ Treasures. It was just perfect to complete my card.
They’re playing bingo at Aud Sentiments, always fun to
play along to help with building up the decoration on a card. I’ve picked up their embossing with the
various stamps throughout the card, I have numerous die cuts and my 3D item
could be both the card itself and the centre piece. I also have flowers and both digi and rubber
stamps so that’s another set of bingo and if diagonals are allowed I’ve got a
third with the use of my markers on the images.
Got the required sentiment covered too, have them in my stamping, on the
outside of the box using foil and also on the underneath layers with the
beautiful poetry of Elizabeth Barrett Browning.
For my top layer I’ve followed the current sketch at
Noor! & Zo. I reshaped the sketch, which was in my favoured 6x6 format, to fit the size of the rectangle my panels are. I swapped out the banner elements for some stick pins I wrapped in memory thread and nestled in flower bits.
I've taken a close up of one of the image panels so you can see the sketch elements better and, well, to see the simply gorgeous image from Tiddly Inks I used.
I've taken a close up of one of the image panels so you can see the sketch elements better and, well, to see the simply gorgeous image from Tiddly Inks I used.
The current theme
at Scrapping4Fun is either weddings or engagements, this card is, as I said,
for an engagement gift so I’ve got the theme covered so am linking it up there. There’s a similar theme at Fun with Shapes and More, I haven’t got the wedding part covered but definitely have hearts and
love on this card so I am also entering their challenge.
It’s always anything goes at the I Am Roses challenge blog so long as you have a minimum of two flowers from their store. I have lots and lots of their flowers and four different kinds so I am entering my card in their current challenge.
Now I was never
going to be able to take a good photo of each layer once assembled so I took
one of each as I finished them, both top and bottom. Yes, being the pedantic crafter I am, I’ve
made sure even the underside of each of the two inner layers was decorated. So here’s all the layers, starting from the outside, I just love how it
all came together with my recurring themes of hearts, roses, embossed
sentiments and lace.
Ingredients:
Copics
Skin E000, E00,
E11, E21 (E02 cheeks)
Hair T5, T7, T9,
100, Y21, Y23, Y26, Y28
Outfits N5, N7,
N9, V09, V17, V20, V22, V25, W3, W5, W7, W9
Chalks &
Powders etc
Ranger Ultra Thick
Embossing Enamel ~ Clear
Dies, SVGs &
Templates etc
Die-Versions
Whispers ~ Trellis
Spellbinders
Shapeabilities ~ Ironworks Accents
Embellishments
13@rts ~ Self Adhesive Decorative Beads White (coloured with V09 Various Ink)
Blue Fern Studios Chipboards ~ Adore, Love, Cherish
Blue Fern Studios Chipboards ~ Adore, Love, Cherish
Close to My Heart
~ Bitty Pearls
I Am Roses ~ Mini Roses White (R2-15), Open Roses (R4-15), Tuscany Roses White (ZR19-15) & Wild Roses (R22-15)
Live and Love Crafts Flowers ~ Decoration Berries Lilac/Purple, Foam Flower Buds White, Foam Flower Stems Lilac & Frosted Berries Lavender
Live and Love Crafts Vintage Pearl Pins ~ Capped Teardrops & Crown Teardrops
Making Memories
Rub-ons Alphabet ~ Heidi White
Inks & Paints
etc
Tim Holtz
Distress Ink ~ Dusty Concord, Milled Lavender & Tea Dye
Papers
Ribbons &
Trims etc
Stamps
Challenges
Aud Sentiments #133 ~ Bingo (Bottom row: die cut,
embossing, 3D item, Middle column: flowers, digi or rubber stamp, embossing,
Diagonal: die cut, digi or rubber stamp, markers)
Thanks for
stopping by!