Hey Everybody,
Today I have a fun fold cards for you. This one is called a corner fold card.
Connie Stewart did a video to show how to make this card. You can see it here.
| Stamps: Unbounded Love |
| Paper: white, petal pink, old olive, SU Painterly Pairs designer series paper |
| Paper Size: A2 |
| Ink: mossy meadow |
| Accessories: gold stickles, SU Metallic Textures Rub-ons, heart punch |
| Techniques: Corner Fold Card |
With this type of card, I found that the paper is the key. Find a striking type of paper and it does the work for you. Plus, this is an unusual card fold, so it's a WOW in itself.
1. Find a beautiful paper to use.
2. Find a great fun fold.
3. Minimal work to make your card a WOW card!
The next card is for the Alphabet Challenge. This week we made cards for the letter H with the prompt of Hat Pin. The prompts we get are usually about antiques. The stamp set I like to use when doing something old fashioned is, Friendship's Journey.
Our letter today is H with the inspiration being a hat pin.  I stamped this lady in brown ink and colored her with light copic colors. I wanted the image to look like a colorized photo of long ago. Have you ever seen those? I really like them. I think it adds so much to the image by doing this technique. Here are a few colorized photos.  I distressed the edges and used a dauber to add ink to them. I used a sanding block to rough up the image a bit. I like the look of distressed edges. We used to actually have a technique where we burned the edges of our cards. We worked over a sink with a lighter or match to burn the edges of our cards to get the uneven and sooty look. I wouldn't do that now because we have so many other tools to make things look distressed. I printed a few hat pins and fussy cut them. I punched holes in the image panel and added two hat pins to go with the theme of the card. I dry embossed with the postage stamps embossing folder then used direct to paper to ink it up with lots of different colors of brown inks. I tore the paper and used a dauber to darken the edges. That layer was added to an early espresso card base. The image was added with dimensionals. The sentiment was stamped with pecan pie ink then I use two image stamps from this set and stamped off a few times then stamped on the sentiment. I fussy cut the sentiment and added it to the card. |
| Keywords: ABC23H8 ABC23 ABC23bensarmom |
| Stamps: Friendship's Journey |
| Paper: early espresso, very vanilla |
| Paper Size: A2 |
| Ink: memento rich cocoa, Distress Inks:tea dye, gathered twigs, old paper, antique linen, walnut stain, SU pecan pie |
| Accessories: sanding block, distressing tool, scissors, dimensionals, Copic markers, daubers, The Paper Studio-Postage Stamps embossing folder |
| Techniques: direct to paper inking, dry embossing , coloring, distressing, paper ripping |
There you have it, two very different cards. Is one more your style? Which one would you make?
What paper would you use to make that fun corner fold card? Is there paper you've been holding on to that would look great with this paper fold? Take it out and use it. Someone will truly appreciate receiving a card from you.
Thanks for stopping by.
Blessings,
Sue
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