Put your embossing and die-cutting to the test with Ruth Hamilton's pretty card
What you need...
- Card, white, brown, aqua, peach
Embossing folders: Creative Expressions, Brick; Crafts Concept, Sunray; Cuttlebug, Allegro
Paper, First Edition, Blank Canvas
Punches, Tonic Studios: Victorian Border, Classic Flower Head, Classic Daisy, mini flower
Dies: Nellie Snellen, Multi Frame Die set, Eastern Rounds; Spellbinders, Petite Scalloped Circles Large
Die-cutting machine, Big Shot
ProMarkers, Satin, Cocoa
Pen, fineliner, black
Adhesives
instructions
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Singing in the rain - 1 Cover a white blank, 15cm x 21cm, with brown card. Cut two pieces of different papers, 7.5cm x 20.25cm, and punch both long sides, then attach these to the card with the punched borders to the right.
2 Emboss white card with a music folder and matt onto brown card, then add to the front at an angle. Download and print the umbrella and boots onto patterned paper and cut out, then add shading with a satin ProMarker.
3 Glue an umbrella to the centre of the embossed panel and attach the boots to the bottom-right with 3-D foam pads. Print a greeting and die-cut with a Nellie Snellen die.
4 Layer onto a brown scallop-edged panel and attach to the embossed piece. Layer seven large plain punched daisies and seven small punched patterned flowers onto the card. -
Sunshine on a rainy day - 1 Matt backing paper, 11.75cm x 16.75cm, onto brown card and attach to the front. Emboss a sunray folder onto white card, 8.5cm x 11.5cm, then matt onto brown and attach. Print and cut out an umbrella and boots.
2 Colour the handle with a cocoa ProMarker. Glue to the right of the background paper at an angle, with a little overlapping. Attach the boots to the bottom-left. Print, cut out and matt a greeting onto brown card.
3 Attach to the top-left and bottom-right, overlapping onto the patterned paper. Attach two large punched daisies and nine mini flowers to the boots, umbrella and greetings, adding dots to the centre of each.
Papers and punches, Cutting Edge Crafts, http://www.cuttingedgecrafts.co.uk
ProMarkers, Polkadoodles, http://www.polkadoodles.co.uk