Well, somehow…someway…we’re back at Monday! I hope that y’all made it thru the time-warp that is the weekend. We made it just fine – had a nice time with some friends on Saturday evening at their annual bonfire. Beautiful evening and good friends. Even made driving home in the dark (something we don’t do a lot of!) very much worth it! 🙂
My share today is inspired by a design from Freshly Made Sketches. Their sketch #209 is very clean and simple and elegant. Head over and take a gander when you get a shot.
I saw a lovely card that Mary Fish made with this design – check it out here. I love her card! And wanted to use some of the elements in a card of my own.
This one is a Thank You card, using the Leaflets Framelits dies and Vintage Leaves (one of my best bundle buys EVER!). Take a look-see:
I started by cutting the maple leaf out of a piece of Kraft Corrugated Paper, using my Leaflets Framelits die. Then I made a background for the negative space.
I took a square of Early Espresso and, using my Simply Scored board, scored vertical lines all the way across it. Then I turned it about 45 degrees, and made lines again, which cross the original lines in a cross-hatch design. It looks like quilting to me! 🙂
I SNAILd the dry-embossed panel to my Early Espresso card base, and then popped the die cut Corrugated Paper over it with Stampin’ Dimensionals.
I used a Glue Dot to add a Gold Basic Metal Button in the middle of the leaf’s negative space. On top of that, I adhered a triple-bow (2 lengths of Gold Metallic Thread and one of Linen Thread) with another Glue Dot.
I cut the sentiment out of Gold Foil, with a Hello You Thinlits die and adhered it with little dabs of Multi-Purpose Liquid Glue. And that was it for the front!
On the inside, I stamped the matching leaf from Vintage Leaves in Early Espresso on a piece of Very Vanilla card stock. I stamped the image off once on my Grid Paper before stamping the card stock. Then I SNAILd it to a piece of Gold Foil and that was all it needed.
For the envelope, I used a Crumb Cake Medium Envelope and, stamping off once on the Grid Paper, added another Early Espresso Vintage Leaf on the front….
….and for the liner, I cut a liner with my Envelope Liner Framelit, from Early Espresso card stock. Then I again used my Simply Scored board to repeat my cross-hatch dry embossing before I put it inside the envelope….
….to yield a pulled-together coordinating card and envelope set!
Et Voila! Hope you like! 🙂
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TTFN
Mary
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Card Cuts Used in Today’s Project
Early Espresso Card Stock: 5 1/2″ x 8 1/2″ (card base, scored and folded at 4 1/4″); approx 3 1/2″ x 4 1/2″ (cross-hatched leaf background); cross-hatched envelope liner
Gold Foil: 4 1/8″ x 5 3/8″ (liner mat); Thanks die cut
Very Vanilla Card Stock: 4″ x 5 1/4″ (inside liner)
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I love this!! The scoring on the leaf and on the envelope liner is the perfect amount of texture. Great design!! 🙂
Thanks, Amy! 🙂
I love the texture on this. And the touch of gold looks so pretty against the neutrals. Thanks for joining us at Freshly Made Sketches this week!
Thanks so much, Amy! 🙂
That corrugated paper is simply fantastic with that leaf! Wonderful. Glad you joined us this week at FMS!
Thanks! 🙂