Monday 26 June 2023

Earthen Elegance for International Highlights Winner's Hop

Hello and welcome to my blog. Earlier in the month, I participated in Kylie Bertucci's International Blog Highlights and after the voting had closed I was delighted to find myself in the Top Ten!

Thank you so much to everyone who visited the gallery and voted for my card. If you missed it, you can read all about it here. I am absolutely thrilled to be eligible to take part in this winner's hop.

For my card for today I have chosen make the same fun-fold card, but I have used a different suite of products to create a card that looks different.

I selected the Earthen Elegance Suite to make my card with. It really is elegant! I took a Gray Granite card base and topped it with layers of Misty Moonlight and Earthen Elegance DSP. The centre panel has an embossed Exposed Brick layer, around which I tied some Gray Granite Baker's Twine.

There are many possibilities with the stamp and die bundle, and I have a small pile of stamped and die cut pots together with some pots cut from the DSP. Mixing and matching them together is so much fun. I selected an ombre piece of DSP for the centre front panel which is pretty, and grounds the pot so that it isn't floating. I combined die cut pot and handle elements to make a slightly taller pot which I popped up on dimensionals over some Pretty Peacock stamped foliage. I added two more die cut pieces of foliage and a simple sentiment to finish off the front.

The reverse of the centre panel provides the space for you to write a personal message.

I work with metric measurements usually, and my template for this fun-fold is shown below.

For those of you who work with Imperial measurements the Imperial version starts with a base card measuring 9 3/4" x 5 1/2", scored at 4 1/4" and 7 1/2". The cuts are at 4 1/2" and 3 1/2" - the middle panel is 1" shorter than the back, and the front panel is 2" shorter than the back. Then you add matting layers and DSP. I hope that you have been inspired by my card and that you'll have a go at making one yourself.

Click on the names below to hop around and see the other fabulous projects. Enjoy! I hope you have been inspired today - please leave a comment let me know what you think, and if you live in the UK you can purchase these products below.

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Stay safe and as always, happy crafting,

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