Sharing a special
card I made for my goddaughter who is turning 13 featuring stamps from 49 and Market, Penny Black, SugarPea Designs and, as the main image inside, Ballet Practice from Mo’s Digital Pencil.
The first picture
shows the card closed and below is a picture of it open displaying the Mo’s Digital Pencil image.
Now you might have
guessed my goddaughter is a bit of a dancer, oh, and her favourite colour is
purple.
Over at Frilly and Funkie they are asking you to be inspired by a technique or tutorial you found
online. I wanted to make something
special for my goddaughter and was first going to go with an exploding box
card. But while I was looking for the
tut for one I’d bookmarked I found this card, described as a box card, in my
bookmarks from Karin Heiloo of Karin’s hobby, as featured on the Studio Light blog.
We won’t talk
about the first piece of cardstock I ruined cutting the second cut wrong or the
second piece that was so off square the card wouldn’t shut properly after being
cut and scored. Let’s concentrate
instead on the beautiful Maja DP I found in my stash and layers of purple that
look so lovely on the brown base.
The sentiment on
the front is from the Sprinkles and Smiles set by Penny Black and the ballet
shoes are in the Gabi’s Haute Couture set from 49 and Market. They were stamped on watercolour paper in
VersaMark before being embossed in beautiful White Satin Pearl powder from Hero
Arts. I then coloured the paper with Tim
Holtz Distress Inks in shades to match my papers. I was inspired to use this technique by the
current challenge at Just Us Girls and I think it works beautifully on this
card.
It’s really hard
to see in the photo but I also added some stars from the Caring Hearts set from
SugarPea Designs in Iridescent Sparkle embossing powder from JudiOKins to represent the stardust from the
quote. I added the same stars coming off
the dancer’s hands to tie the image to the front of the card.
At Allsorts they
are looking for projects marking milestones with numbers. As this card is for my goddaughter’s 13th
birthday I wanted to add her age to it so die cut the digits from the darker
purple cardstock I used and added them to the top of the box.
Finally, to
finish the card and hold it together I dyed some silk ribbon with the same Tim
Holtz Distress Inks I used to colour the front of the card and the dancer’s
clothes. It was a bit of a challenge to
cut the slits for the ribbon through the multiple layers, I have all the same
layers repeated on the back so it’s finished as I have my message on the
back. Threading the thin silk ribbon
through the slits was also not fun but the silk ribbon was the only choice to
echo the ribbons on the ballet shoes.
Ingredients:
Chalks &
Powders etc
Hero Arts
Embossing Powder ~ White Satin Pearl
JudiOKins Embossing Powder ~ Iridescent Sparkle
Dies, SVGs &
Templates etc
Noor! Design Dies
~ 6002/0366 Border 2
La-La Land Crafts
Dies ~ 8209 Fancy Numbers
Inks & Paints
etc
Kuretake Starry
Colors ~ No. 906 White Gold
Tim Holtz
Distress Ink ~ Dusty Concord, Ground Espresso, Hickory Smoke, Milled Lavender,
Tea Dye & Vintage Photo
Tsukineko ~ VersaMark
Papers
Bazzill Burlap
Cardstock ~ Cool Heather & Jubilee
Bazzill Smoothie
Cardstock ~ Kraft
Maja Design Ska
vi ta en Fika? (Let’s Have Some Coffee?) ~ Leja’s Café
Stamps
Ribbons &
Trims etc
White Silk Ribbon
from stash dyed with Tim Holtz Distress Ink in Dusty Concord & Milled
Lavender
Challenges
Thanks for stopping by!
