Sorry for my absence but have had a lot on my plate these past few days and I have had to step up the training a notch as I have sold some serious raffle tickets for my Fathers Day card and so don't want to let anyone down. Plus my husband and kids and a whole bunch of peeps are coming to watch my "performance" so I want to do it without looking like I am going to keel over!! Anyway wanted to show you a card that I made to thank all the lovely gents that are clients of The Gentry Didsbury that have been buying the raffle tickets. The card will be on display at the salon tomorrow for anyone to read.
There was an awful lot of die cutting involved with this one. I started with my trusty Kanban card stock in white and used an A4 Spellbinders embossing folder called Dainty Dots to emboss the entire card base. I then used some Navy coloured card along with a patterned piece called Jubilee Damask and used A2 Curved Borders One (Spellbinders) to edge my matting layers.
I then used two different Spellbinders sets from two Becca Feeken papercraft kits to cut the fancy square and circle and the fancy corner piece. I then used a set of Waltzing Mouse stamps called My Kind Of Guy. This was the set I also used to make the Fathers Day card and I just can't stop using them as they are so different to much of whats out there in terms of stylish sentiments for men. The word "Gentlemen" actually says "Gentleman" on the stamp set so I stamped the word twice and cut out the "e" from the extra stamped word and swaped the "e" for the "a" and mounted the pieced together word on some navy card. I then used a small die from Spellbinders A2 Fancy Postage Edge to stick the mounted word onto and finished it with two navy rhinestones from Kaisercraft. Before sticking the die cut pieces down I threaded through some ribbon from Creative Expressions, which is navy on one side and silvery white on the other. The amazing thing about this ribbon is that when its lay flat it keeps its solid colour but whenyou tie abow with it you get
both colours as the light falls on it. It's absolutely lovely. If you look closely the ribbon looks navy on the left but the bow is a mix of both colours. Very clever, don't know how they do that but I hope they make it in other colour options.
The inside panels were cut using the same dies as on the front. The central stamped die cut and the panel I have written on were made using Spellbinders Radiant Rectangles. The Thank You stamp was from a Waltzing Mouse Stamps set called Big Day Essentials. The font is beautiful. I have a Wedding Invitation set using theses stamps to show you soon.
I hope the guys at the Gentry like it and I hope you do too. Back soon.
Michelle x.
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