Angelica Conrad was a guest designer for Online Card Class Spring Card Camp 2, Day 2. Her cards used border stamps to create background paper.
I pulled out several stamp sets that had different styles of stripes. I decided to use different shade of blue for my card. I used my MISTI to help me ensure the lines were straight and stamped my first hash line stripe in the center of a quarter sheet of Neena Classic Crest 80# Solar White Cardstock. I then moved on to stamping three lines above hash line stripes and then moved on to a wide solid strip above the 3 lines tripe and a thinner solid strip below the hash line stripe and repeated this pattern until the panel was completely stamped.
I cut down the panel using a stitched rectangle ensuring that the top and bottom stripes were even. It was then adhered to a top folding A2 cardbase with liquid glue.
I didn’t want to cover up too much of this background so I decided to use a small square for my sentiment. I used an Ellen Hutson Essential Square Die. I like these dies because they not only cut a square, but they cut a thin border square at the same time. I stamped the sentiment with the darkest blue ink I had used on the background and then smooched the thin border into the ink pad so that it would match. It wasn’t perfect coverage, so I pulled out a Copic Marker that closely matched and touched thin border until it was completely covered.
I took a scrap of Darice Sticky Back Foam and added to the sentiment square and adhered it to the top center of the striped panel. The thin border was adhered directly to the card front with liquid glue.
I decided to add a small embellishment to the card and pulled out Simon Says Stamp Balloon Bouquet and used just one of the balloons. I colored the balloon portion of the die with Copic Markers, leaving the string white. I traced around the balloon onto a scrap of sticky back foam and fussy cut it. I decided where I wanted to place it and then cut away a portion of the foam so that it would lay flat over the sentiment square and be supported on the card front. A little bit of liquid glue was used to hold the balloon string in place.
The final embellishment was add a few blue sequins around the sentiment and the card was done.
PRODUCTS USED:
- Poppy Stamps Birthday Blowout
- Mama Elephant Basic Borders
- Simon Says Stamp Jumbo Stripes
- Simon Says Stamp Balloon Bouquet
- Distress Oxide Inks: Tumbled Glass Mermaid Lagoon, Faded Jeans, Chipped Sapphire, Broken China, Salty Ocean
- Gina K. Designs Amalgam Ink
- Copic Markers: B06, B04, B45
- Doodlebug Designs Blue Jeans Sequins
- Neat & Tangled Starry Night Sequins
- Nuvo Deluxe Adhesive
- Darice Sticky Back Foam
- Ranger Crystal Stickles
