For those of us who make, it's definitely time to craft holiday essentials.
This shaped card is for the Christmas Craft Creations September challenge.
The challenge is to make a shaped card, and I thought round would be fun First, have a look at the finished card, then I'll talk technque.
Here are the supplies I used.
We R Memory Keepers Precision Press. This is the early version. I was reminded why I don't like it as well as the newer one, but I wanted to play with it, since it's been a while. I like it much better for stencils, which you can attach to it via the stencil holder. It's really great for that. For the stamping, it lacks the magnetic platform and magnets period and washi just never seems to hold the card down properly.
Aleene's Tacky Glue is my adhesive of choice for this card. I like to have a minute to get something in place in case I don't get it quite right on the first go.
Ink: I used metallic ink, but you certainly don't have to.
Circle Dies: I'm not sure where the circle dies are from but there isn't anything particularly spectacular about them. If you put the edge just slightly off your paper, you will get a folded card that is in the shape of your die. It really doesn't matter what shape it is, as long as you can make it work to have enough stability when someone opens and shuts the card.
Crafter's Companion Beautiful Baubles: This is a stamp and die set, but I only used 1 of the bell dies and 2 of the sentiments for this card. I got mine from HSN.
Card Stock: I used black, white, and red. I'm not one to tell you "do it just this way," so do as you like. I love this deep red paper, so perfect for a Christmas card. I honestly don't know where that came from because a friend gave me this hodgepodge stack of paper and that was in it. For the base card, I used black cardstock and put a piece of the red over it so that the top would have the full circle and not the nicked Edge circle.
I cut out a white circle just slightly smaller for the writing surface on the inside because it's just too hard to write on black and be able to see it. I mean how many people have white pens? MyAssembly
I will be adding it to the challenge list and I might make a couple of other shaped cards. We're allowed to do up to three of them. I hope you will check out the rest of the challenge posts!
Cheers to your blissful life!
Ronda Del Boccio, the Crafty Blind Girl
You can see my crafting and planning vids on my Crafty Blind Girl YouTube Channel.
Thanks for sharing your project with us and sharing your technique, im the same as you and disliked the early version of the press, I even added magnets to the back of it to try to make me love it..
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Penny DT)
Great card Ronda. You could add a ribbon and this would make a super cool ornament for the tree. Thanks for joining us at the Christmas Craft Creations this month. Tristan DT.
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ReplyDeleteThis is such a pretty round card, Ronda! Thank you for joining us at Christmas Craft Creations - Charlotte/Lady Joyful, DT
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