This was an easy card. I had found the Graphic 45 paper at Tuesday Morning recently, and the ombre and pink shimmer paper at Tuesday Morning awhile back. I am a sucker for most Graphic 45 papers. The colors matched the color palette for the challenge, (although it may not be obvious, since photos aren't necessarily quite true to color). This was a fast and easy card to pull together. I added bling at the corners and to the woman's hat. The bling was from Queen & Co.
I used to do a fair amount of heat embossing, so I thought this challenge would be relatively easy. I am evidently very rusty when it comes to heat embossing, because it did not go particularly well when I tried to emboss multiple layers. The pleating didn't go all that well, either. In the end, I managed both, but I'm not thrilled with the results. Since I am not sure I will actually give this card to anyone, I left it pretty simple rather than taking the time to add anything more to it. The background paper is older, another of those Tuesday Morning finds from long ago.
In the future, if I want a similar effect, I think I would prefer to do dry embossing with an embossing folder instead of pleating, and I'd use Ultra Thick Embossing Enamel (UTEE) with my Melting Pot rather than heat emboss multiple times.
The hostess who posted this one kept the image of her card hidden unless you chose to look. She gave the dimensions for how to cut your papers, then let you try to figure out how they were supposed to go together. My card was close, but not exact. We were also suppose to incorporate a stamped image that we hadn't used before. The one I used was from My Favorite Things "Sweet Birthday Wishes," and the papers were from an Echo Park 6" Paper Pad called "Happy Birthday Girl."
After I had finished my card, I decided to add some Ivory Seashell Crystal Nuvo drops to give it a little dimension and a bit more visual interest.
I used papers from the BoBunny Bee-utiful Collection, as well as Foundation dies and stamps from Queen & Co.
The hostess for challenge 2 was justjac. and her theme is The Four Seasons. The challenge was to do a spring scene card, and the twist was to include a flower. I had completed the stamping and had forgotten the flower, so I added flowers to the little girl's umbrella. Most of the stamps were from My Favorite things, as well as the cloud stencil that I used. The raindrops were a very old Stampin' Up stamp. The grass was from Love You to Bits. The small flower on the umbrella was from Judith. I'm still not particularly adept at using a brush blending tool, but I tried.
#CARDtober2021
NO dies or electronic cutters/cutting files are needed for this. Anyone with a scoring board, scoring tool, paper trimmer or scissors, and a ruler can make the original box card. The videos on the internet used a few different steps that made it more difficult. This is the easiest and quickest way to make a basic box card to decorate any way you like. The one shown in the image below was decorated with Graphic 45 papers from an older line. The tutorial itself teaches how to create the box card structure.
