Today, I made a card and packaging for two challenges. Over at Moxie Fab World, they are having a challenge to make your own background paper. This is the first time I tried making my own background paper because oftentimes, with my patterned paper collection, I can find a background paper that will work for my project. But I did not realize how much fun it is to simply stamp on a blank canvass and just let your creativity take you to wherever you want. I got the Natural Beauties stamp set as a freebie from Papertrey last year. And this is the first time I have used it. How did I manage to hold off this long before using this lovely, lovely set?
Here is my card. One of my new colour combo favourites lately is yellow and gray. I love its muted and subdued feel and I think I like how my card turned out.
I used Papertrey stamps (Natural Beauties, Simple Sentiments), die (heart border), cardstock (harvest gold, smokey shadow, stamper’s white) and ink (harvest gold, smokey shadow for the sentiment). I also used Amuse’s Slate and Provincial Gray inks for the leaves and flowers.
Notice the overhang on my card? I love the look of some elements of my card going “outside the box”. So enter Papertrey’s Make It Monday Challenge #100.
The challenge this week is to create packaging for cards with oversized embellishments. Dawn has shown us several ways to accomplish this. As for me, this is how I normally package cards that are bigger than the normal A2 size.
I used some coordinating patterned paper for my envelope. This is a great way to use up those 12x12 papers I have been hoarding collecting. I just basically made simple folds to create a pocket envelope like this. And I finished it off with a half circle using my circle punch.
This is very useful for hand delivered cards (which I make a lot of). So when my mood strikes, I build up my stock of these envies and even stamp a fun border for the recipient's name. Here I used Fillable Frames #6 from Papertrey.
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