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Hello All! I hope all of you are doing well during this pandemic period. I'm certainly praying for us all. I also pray that those who have the virus recover. I personally don't know anyone who has had it, but it is my understanding that it is rough.
Because of the lock down in our state of North Carolina, I find I have more time for crafting in which case, crafting is a blessing. It's something I've enjoyed for about 19 years now.
A dear friend of mine is just getting into the card making craft and has asked me to post a step by step tutorial on how to make a card. I'm currently signed as a
Stampinup demonstrator but not to sell. However, if you have any questions or would like to purchase product, I'd be happy to help. (AHHHH, Michael Buble singing Georgia as I post this. Georgia is where I'm from originally.)
For the featured card, I used the Good Morning Magnolia Stamp Set from Stampinup. It is a beautiful set and so very versatile.
For this card, you will need white, black, and green 8.5 x 11 cardstock. You'll
need to cut the white cardstock into two equal pieces by placing the full sheet in your paper trimmer turned landscape style. Pull the left side under the blade and out to the 5.5 mark. Run the blade through the cardstock to create two equal pieces of cardstock measuring 5.5 x 8.5 each. Put one of these aside for later use in this project. You will need to fold the piece remaining to create the card base. Position the cardstock landscape style on your work surface and fold the right side to the left till the corners meet.
Set this folded card base aside. Now we're going to work on the green background of the card. Cut the green cardstock the same way the white was cut, but, instead of
folding one of the halves, we're going to cut it. place your green cardstock measuring 5.5 x 8.5 into the paper trimmer and pull it under the black to the 4.25
mark. Run the blade through the cardstock to create two equal pieces measuring 5.5 x 4.25 each. Take one of these green pieces of cardstock and cut it to measure
4.0 x 5.25. Set aside one of these as scrap for use on another project.
Next, we're going to ink up the magnolia flower with Memento tuxedo black ink.
Now, randomly stamp the image around the edge of the green background cardstock re inking as needed.
Now, we're going to cut two more pieces of cardstock, the black, and the white.
Cut the cardstock the same size as before resulting in 5.5 x 4.25 pieces. Now you're going to cut one of the pieces of the black cardstock to measure 3.25 x 4.5 and set aside. If you need to, just lightly mark the correct measurement with a ruler and pencil and cut accordingly. Next, you will cut the white piece of cardstock to a measurement of 3.0 x 4.25. At the top of this piece, you can stamp any sentiment you wish as long as there is room for the Magnolia flower below it. I selected Hello.
At this point, we're going to ink up our Magnolia flower again and make a nice crisp stamp of the image onto white cardstock. You can stamp it directly onto the piece where your sentiment is stamped if you like. I stamped mine on a separate piece of cardstock and cut around the image. I also used a thin sponge under it to make sure the image was as crisp as can be.
I have not invested in the Stampin blends ink markers that Stampinup has available yet. I have a pretty sizable set of copic markers so that is what I used to color the image. I actually got the ideas for this card from Stesha Bloodhart at Stampinhoot.com, https://stampinhoot.com/2019/10/gdp211-happily-ever-after-with-good-morning-magnolia/?ct=t(RSS_EMAIL_CAMPAIGN) She did use the Stampin Blends Markers in case you need more information on how to color the image.
After your Magnolia is colored, you can fussy cut around the edges of the flower
unless it was stamped directly onto the sentiment cardstock. In that case, no fussy cutting.
Now, it's just a matter of assembly. Glue your green background piece to your white card base. Glue your flower to your sentiment piece of cardstock unless stamped directly. Glue your black cardstock to your green background then glue your sentiment piece with flower to the black cardstock. And...
Viola! You have a beautiful card. You can also embellish the card with rhinestones or pearls!
Happy Crafting and God Bless!
For this project, I used
Cardstock
Whisper White
Basic Black
Pear Pizzaz
Ink
Memento Tuxedo Black
Markers
Copic colors
Grayish Olive
Cherry White
Prawn
