Hi Everyone, it's been a while since I made a card, apart from my DT items, but my SiL asked me to make a card for my Niece. It was quite short notice and I decided to make a side opening landscape, I looked through my stamps and decided to go all out with stamping multiple times.
I stamped in green, seeing as the details are small, and then added a little more green on the stems and tiny leaves with DO. Next, I coloured the flowers in red DO. The sentiment was then stamped in the same permanent ink. I die-cut the layer and attached it to a red layer, both laid onto the base card. I decided to add tiny butterflies with a dab of ink on a piece of card, placing them onto to the card.
I then turned to the insert and found a few sentiments for "daughter" on the web and a couple I had in my files, SiL chose what she wanted, so I printed it out. Next, I stamped the floral onto the insert and placed it inside the card.
stamp - Penny Black, Delicate Florals
permanent ink - Whispers, pine green (very old ink}
inks - Distress Oxide, rustic wilderness, candied apple
insert verse - CraftsUprint
butterflies - Tattered Lace?
red layer - Lidl paper
A Note: I love the top hung format portrait 5x7-inch size, but all my cards always open wide to display. I hate that, so I decided to cut mine in landscape. I took an A3 card and cut the landscape shape with my Silhouette. I also used an A3 160gsm paper to cut the insert.
It was only then I realised my printer wouldn't recognise the A3 size, DUH! I thought how am I to get the insert paper to go through my printer and print correctly? A lightbulb moment, had me attaching the cut insert to a piece of A4 paper and printing it out, it was perfect. Now I can do more of the landscape shape and not worry about the insert printing correctly. I expect a lot of you already know how to do that. I blame my age for not knowing!
What a beautiful card. I love that stamp and the blue and red. Well done for finding a solution to the printed insert issue. It is satisfying when things come together in the end xx
ReplyDeleteYou are a total whiz in working with your silhouette to create the insert. What a wonderful card, it's beautiful both outside and inside as well.
ReplyDeleteBeautiful card inside and out-love the delicate stamps.
ReplyDeleteCarol x
I'm a bit fixated on side opening landscapes at the moment and the design works very well with the aptly named PB image, beautiful.
ReplyDeleteB x
It’s a really pretty design Faith, xx
ReplyDeleteStunning card Faith, I love how you created this, just beautiful. xx
ReplyDeleteThis is so beautiful and I love the inside too. As for your age - you are smarter than many, especially with the silhouette and I wouldn't have figured out how to do the insert lol! L x
ReplyDeleteA beautiful card for your niece, Faith! I would have never figured out how to make the insert print correctly, so you are way ahead of me in that department!
ReplyDeleteA very lovely card, Faithie. As you know, I could print a card in what I use, PSE. But the few times I've tried, I cannot get each page surface centered. So I gave up and glad I did. I like my cards thick or atleast stiff enough not to buckle when displayed, and adhering what I print on to the card base works best for me. So, I've never encountered a similar problem, but thank goodness for American legal size card stock because I do like a landscape A7 card occasionally and that is the only size paper I have to cut the card base from. Enjoy your week, hope all is well, xoxo
ReplyDeleteA gorgeous card, both inside and out. Well done for working out how to print the inside message.
ReplyDeleteI like making landscape versions of A6 cards too . . . for the very same reason of them splaying out if you use them in the tent fold way. xxx
Very pretty.
ReplyDeleteBeautiful card and insert
ReplyDeleteSo pretty! Lovely image!
ReplyDeleteClever you I never would have thought of that which is why I had an A3 printer !! Beautifully stamped card both inside and out .You certainly are a genius.
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Absolutely beautiful Faith - the stamping is so delicate and pretty with lovely colouring, and the inside stamping and printing is fabulous too. I also much prefer side opening cards as I agree that tent folds tend to splay open and I don’t like that. I don’t make inserts though as I have no clue how to place sentiments for an insert, and particularly for any paper size other than A4! I’m sure it’s easy if I read up about it but I just never have done! xx
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