Card of the week 552

Card of the Week – DIY Essentials🛠️

This weeks card of the week all about DIY

Prepare the Base:

• Cut a 6″ square mat from tea-coloured cardstock and adhere it to a 7″ white card blank.

Create the Stencilled Background:

• Place your stencil onto white card.
• Use a sepia ink pad with a blending brush to apply ink, creating a spanners background.
• Trim this stencilled piece to 5.5″ square and ink the edges with the sepia pad.
• Mount it onto your tea-coloured mat.

Emboss & Layer:

• Emboss a piece of white card using the stripes embossing folder.
• Cut it with the square die from the DIY set.
• Attach this embossed square to your stencilled background with foam tape.

Sentiment Placement:

• Cut the outline sentiment die in tea and the sentiment in silver.
• Attach them to the top left and bottom right of the embossed panel as shown in the reference image.

Add the Tools:

• Die-cut the tools in both silver and tea cardstock.
• Arrange them on the embossed mat as shown in the reference image.

Alternative Design

Prepare the Base:

Cut a tea-coloured mat and adhere it to your card blank.

Emboss & Layer:

• Emboss a piece of white card using the stripes embossing folder.
• Cut and layer the tools as described in the main design.

Create a Framed Stencilled Background:

• Stencil the background as before.
• Create a frame using the Celtic Frame die set (JND488) or two square dies together.
• Lay this frame over the embossed panel using foam tape for dimension.