Friday's Cards

I thought I would post both of these cards at the same time as they are variations on each other.

First card uses Basic Black for its base and the second uses Cherry Cobbler. Also Very Vanilla is used for both tags.

Both fronts use the flower from the "Blooming with Kindness" stamp set with Versamark Ink and Clear Embossing powder. Then heated with the Heat Gun to give this beautiful shiny dimension.

Each card uses a Dahlia, ribbon and ink in both of those new In Colours, Summer Starfruit on Black card and Primrose Petals on the Cherry card.

The fabric flowers are both made using the Timeless Portrait fabric, using the two floral prints. You can make six flowers from each pattern. Across the 18" side of the fabric, make a small cut with scissors at every 3". Then tear the fabric all the way to the bottom. Then fold four times lengthwise until you have an approximate square of 3" and it is 8 layers in your little bundle. Then using the Big Shot and the Circles #2 Originals die (114526), cut your stack of fabric on the largest circle (2 1/2"). It will easily cut all eight layers at once. You will now have 8 perfect circles. (If you have another die cutting machine, this die will fit in most of them.) 

Punch out a 1 3/8" circle from a cardstock scrap (any colour as it won't show!). Fold each circle of fabric into fourths and glue to the
1 3/8" circle with the point facing in to the center. Do that with 3 more fabric circles to finish the first row. Do the same with the top layer of 4 fabric circles but offset each piece by a 1/2 the width of the previous row so the seams are not in the same place. Then I glued the dahlia in the center and the flower was the last item that I glued onto the card, by placing glue on the bottom of the paper circle all the fabric pieces are secured to. I used liquid Tombow glue for attaching all the flower pieces and to attach the flower to the card. (Don't use too much glue or it will gush between the flower pieces!!)

If you have any questions, or need to see photos of the process, let me know and I will get some posted here. (The flower does add a little dimension to the card but it will flatten to put into a regular envelope.)

This is one of my favourite cards recently but I have more to come!

See you soon,
Chrissie

PS: You can't punch fabric with a regular circle punch...you need to use a die and the Big Shot machine.