Rarely, rarely, does this happen, but when I received my new stamps from DesignwithSassy, a card just popped in my head AND it worked out just the way I hoped! Ta da!
I needed a simple tent card, so I placed a square on the DS canvas and sized it at 5" by 10" to form the card base. It would have been easy peasy to add a variety of differently sized stars on the lower half of the card and attach to make the star shaped cut outs. Unfortunately, I wanted to use the "Star in Square" image from the Artbooking cart because I like the way the stars fit at the edges!
I discovered that I was unable to use the contour button to hide the outer square and therefore could not 'attach' the image to the front of the card to cut out the stars. Soooo, the only way I could make it work was to slice a square in the front of the card base and then weld in the "Star in Square" image. Yes!!! Then I attached the score line and voila!
To finish the card I glued on the Accented Star from the Home Decor cart and added a square of platinum vellum behind the stars. I placed a frame around the outside and inside of the stars panel to finish it off neatly. Inside I attached the Shooting Stars frame from Artbooking and used my MISTI to stamp the inspirational stardust sentiment from the Happy Birthday collection.
A length of silver ribbon and I was done!
It looks so pretty with the tea light placed inside the card, don't you think? Then, of course, I had to craft a box since an envelope could not contain both the card and tea light!
Thank you for visiting with me today : ) Christine
Beautiful card, and the tea light inside is so dramatic. Curious why you just didn't weld a square to the image from Artbooking to make the card.
ReplyDeleteThank you for your kind words, Charlotte! Since I attached the vellum by gluing around the edges, I needed a thicker border around the star image from Artbooking. I could indeed have welded a square frame to the star image and then welded it to a square to form the card. I'm working on another tea light card but this time I AM cutting the shapes from the card front by the 'attach' method. Much easier!
ReplyDeleteAha, for a thicker border. Well, that makes sense. I'm fooling with attach, slice and weld, and can't wait to see your next card b/c I'm getting different results using the attach feature than I am doing what you did initially.
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