Wednesday, June 4, 2014

You Make Me Happy


The current challenge at Our Daily Bread Designs is "White on White." I've never done a card like that, but decided to give it a try.

I decided I wanted to use embossing on my card, so I chose this embossing folder, which also has a coordinating border folder. I also wanted to use a greeting from this set. So I found the following Operation Write Home sketch, which would work perfectly with the stamp/die combination for the greeting:



The die cut panel is slightly smaller than the focal panel in the sketch, but it was close enough to work. I cut a piece of white cardstock for the larger back panel, and embossed it with the main folder, then embossed a 1" strip of cardstock with the border folder. I adhered the pieces to a piece of copy paper I'd cut to 4.25x5.5", just to give me a base to work on. I used a piece of 3/8" white satin ribbon to cover the seam.

I stamped the greeting in Versamark ink onto a piece of white cardstock, then heat embossed it with Ranger Silver embossing powder. I cut it with the coordinating die, and adhered it with foam tape, overlapping the ribbon on the card front panel.

I felt the card was a bit too "heavy" on the right side, so I added another piece of ribbon across the lower part of the card front. Where the 2 ribbon pieces intersected, I added a silver heart mini brad. Finally, I adhered the panel to an A2-size card base.

I'm also entering this in the "Embossing" Lawnscaping challenge.


3 comments:

  1. What a beautiful sentiment that will indeed put a smile on the recipients face, Andrea. The added embossing adds such elegance. Thanks for joining the Shining the Light challenge this week!!

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  2. Oh, Andrea, join the club! I don't think I've ever done a white-on-white card either! But yours is beautiful, and I just love the sentiment! It definitely is a great one that made me smile! So glad you've joined us again this week for the ODBD Shining the Light challenge, sweet friend! Hugs!

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  3. Your first white on white turned out fabulous Andrea! Love the embossed background and especially the sentiment! So glad you took the challenged, tried something new and joined us this week at ODBD!

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