Our old friend Bonnie opened up a digital store of her own called We Are 3. She is sponsoring this week and was so generous to give us some goodies to play with. I kept my card really simple, I must confess I am working on Christmas projects that I need to get done before Thanksgiving so my cards have taken a place on the bottom rung of the priority ladder.
My card features Glitter Tags and Storybook Christmas papers. I cut the santa image out from it's glitter border because I wanted to keep my card a bit muted for a masculine type card.
How I made this card. First of all, I opened up a word document and made it landscape. I opened up the digital paper and moved it to the furthest bottom right corner. The paper measure 6x6 so I didn't want to resize it which could distort the image - that house is too pretty to distort. I drew a box that measures 4 1/4 x 5 1/2 and placed that over the image that I wanted to print. I then "whited out" the areas that I didn't want to print by drawing white boxes. (Now I know many of you are wondering why I did it this way. I don't own photoshop so this is how I get it work.) Then I removed the original box. I then brought in my Santa image off to the side and printed this all at one time. I cut the card portion out and scored as I usually do. I then cut a piece of white card stock using the Moroccan dies by Spellbinders. I cut a black circle. I layered the focal image to the black circle and that to the embellishment piece.
After that I just took a snowdrifts border die and laid it on my card and drew stitch lines with a white gel pen using the border die as my guide. Easy!
I do hope to see you over at the Tuesday Morning Sketches blog - you're gonna love it! And be sure to visit the design team, too.
3 Encouraging Thoughts:
WOW, lots of work to create your card, but very much worth it. Your card is lovely! I would never have guessed you did it via graphics rather than the old fashion cut and paste. Beautiful work.
I like how you cropped the Santa image and used that pretty paper to steal the spotlight. Fun die-cut behind the image too :)
You gave me a major oh gosh why didn't I think of that moment with your hand drawn stitch lines!! I love what you did with the We Are 3 products and your sketch!!
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