Hello, friends! Dawn McVey here! Ok, so it’s my turn to share a post for The Greetery and this is a fun one! I had a great time creating with the Canned dies and the Something Fishy stamp set during the last release, but hadn’t had a chance yet to work with the Canned Lite set. I was eager to get busy and I had a BALL making this card for my hubby, along with a couple gift tags! His birthday is coming up so I made this card to use for his birthday, and will use the coordinating gift tags for his gifts. I have to tell you though, that I kind of want to make a whole stack of these little sardine cans for a bunch more gift tags as well as BOOKMARKS!! So fun, yes???
PRO TIP: Notice I didn’t use a birthday sentiment on this card at all, even though it’s for his birthday! I will certainly write my birthday wishes for him on the inside of the card, but don’t feel like you can’t branch out a little with your sentiments! I’m going to write inside the card anyway, so I took the opportunity to use the fun “Great Catch” and “we’re in this together” sentiments instead. He’ll love it and won’t care one bit that it doesn’t say happy birthday on the front!
So, as is often the case for me, I started out by die cutting lots of little parts and pieces of the can layers. I die cut some of the bases and then just started laying additional die cuts on each one as I went. I had a group of colors I was working with, so I just die cut each layer in several of those colors and then mixed and matched on all the little cans. I then die cut and/or stamped the elements from Something Fishy — which TOTALLY LEVEL UP the little cans!!! — and then started glueing everything together.
At this point, I was still just playing and making little cans, not worrying about what I was gonna do with them or how they were going to go on a card. It’s much more freeing creatively, if you just allow yourself to make a little stack of cuteness and then worry about the card after that!
PRO TIP: Three words: SILVER GLITTER CARDSTOCK! I can’t tell you how fun and sparkly this is in real life and it makes some of those little can details POP!
PRO TIP: For the can with my focal point sentiment, I used foam adhesive to help the sentiment stand out a bit more.
Also….sparkly silver fish! (insert heart eyes emoji!!! Haha!)
Seriously, all the little typography elements add so much detail and cuteness!! And don’t even get me started on the little pop tabs!!!
These two little gift tags will be tied onto his gifts. It’s easy to write or stamp the to/from info on the back! Although, in this case, I’m pretty sure he’s gonna know who they’re from! HA!
Hope I’ve given you a bit of inspiration today! Have you made anything with Canned Lite yet? It’s so FUN!
I hope you find a little time to get crafty!
Have a goodie, friends!
xo,
Dawn
