Today I'd like to share with you a quick trick to creating a Handmade Card.
Below you will see two handmade cards created with the Too Kind Stamp Set (Item#130447 wood and Item#130450 clear mount). Several people have expressed their need to create quick and easy cards, that don't take a ton of time to create, that they can create a bunch all at one time, and handmade cards that don't all look the same. Today I'll share a quick trick to have one card design look like two different cards with one (or two) simple change(s).
The quick trick is COLOR. Here is how it works. You create your main Handmade card:
- I used Baked Brown Sugar as the card base, (cut at 5 1/2 x 4 1/4)
- Coastal Cabana Card Stock as the next layer,
- then the Strawberry Slush Ruffled Ribbon attached to Whisper White Card Stock.
- I used the Pistachio Pudding ink for the flower stems,
- Crisp Cantaloupe as the first flower layer and Strawberry Slush as the top layer of the flower. This process is called Two Step Stamping.
- I then stamped the words "Sending Good Thoughts Your Way" in Baked Brown Sugar Ink onto the Whisper White Card Stock.
- Then I used the Bitty Butterfly Punch (Item#129406) and punched the little butterfly out of the Strawberry Slush Card Stock, added a basic pearl and attached to card stock with a glue dot.
- Then I wrapped the Linen Thread around the Whisper White Card stock, tied a knot and then adhered the Whisper White Card stock to the Coastal Cabana.
- Then I put Stampin' Dimensionals on the back and adhered it to the Baked Brown Sugar.
- And now my Handmade Card is complete.
To change up the look I created the same Handmade Card, done the same way, with the exception of changing the base color and adding another stamp set. (Keep in mind you could just punch out a Wisteria Wonder Butterfly without adding the other stamp set if you wanted to to keep it really simple, it would still look very pretty. )
- In this card I cut a card base in Wisteria Wonder Card Stock 5 1/2 x 4 1/4
- In the card above I kept everything in Steps 2 through 8 with the exception in Step 7.
- In Step 7 I used the small butterfly from Papillion Potpourri (Item#132058 wood, Item#123759 clear mount) and stamped it in Basic Black ink onto Wisteria Wonder Card Stock and punched it out using the Bitty Butterfly Punch, and also added two way glue to butterfly, adhered Dazzling Diamonds Glitter and a Basic Pearl and attached to Whisper White Card stock with a glue dot.
- Then I put Stampin' Dimensionals on the back and adhered it to the Wisteria Wonder Card Base.
Using the quick trick of just swapping out one color it gave this Handmade Card two different options without having to reinvent the wheel for a different look.
