Hello and Happy New Year!! I'm back after the festive break with my first PMD Design Team blog post for 2016. It's that time of
year when we may be sending 'Thank You' cards to family and friends, so
using this week's special offer 'Mustard Yellow' cardstock from Papermilldirect, I created this little ‘Thank You’ card design as follows:
Score and fold a sheet of A4 PMD Black card in half then trim down to
create a square card blank. I cut mine to measure approx. 5 ¾”.
Cut a square of PMD Mustard Yellow card to measure approx. 5 ½”
square and emboss using the ‘distress’ effect embossing folder through
your die cutter.
Position black card blank in ‘tent’ position (with fold along the
top) Adhere the embossed panel centrally onto card front using double
sided tape.
Cut 2 strips of pattern paper approx. 1 ¼” deep by just over 5”
wide. Mat the pattern papers onto PMD black card to leave a small equal
border showing all around on both strips.
Using a red-brown ink and the sentiment stamp, stamp ‘Thank You’ onto
PMD Mustard Yellow card. When ink is dry carefully position a frame
die over it and run through your die cutter (tip: I use a little low
tack washi tape to hold dies in place).
Cut the same frame die again using PMD black card, you will see that
there are 2 parts to each die cut frame set, use the thin black outer
piece to frame the stamped piece, use a little strip of card and / or
tape on the back to hold them in place.
Cut a ¾ “deep strip of PMD black card to fit across the mustard embossed
panel. (I was using up scraps so mine is shown as 2 pieces).
(Optional) Spray with gold ink and leave to dry. (you can mix your own
spray using a gold ink and water into a mister bottle and giving it a
shake before using)
Add 3D foam pads to black gold sprayed card strip and position across the centre of the card between the patterned panels. Add sentiment to centre using 3D foam to give height.
To finish add black sequins to right of sentiment. I used 2 small and 1
large black sequin and glued in place using cosmic shimmer clear drying
glue.
This is a simple card layout and of course you could add different
sentiments to the centre to suit other occasions. It also makes use of
any pretty paper scraps you may have laying around. The pretty bird
paper strips were left over from other projects and way too pretty to
discard, they worked well with the PMD Mustard Yellow and Black
cardstocks and the addition of height and embossed texture added to the
effect.
Mustard Yellow Offer Card – PMD
Black Card – PMD
Distress Embossing Folder – Textures by Crafters Companion
Botanical Notes 6x6 paper pad – First Edition
Borders, Frames & Buckle Die Set – First Edition
Thank You sentiment stamp – Oak House Studio
Ink Pad – Oak House Studio
Spray Ink – Oak House Studio
Black sequins
Double Sided Tape, 3D Foam Pads (or Tape) Cosmic Shimmer clear drying glue
Papermill Design Team:
if you have a moment, please do pop over and check out the other papermill teamies blogs and see what they got up to this week:
if you have a moment, please do pop over and check out the other papermill teamies blogs and see what they got up to this week:
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