Hello, friends! I’ve got a fun card to share with you today. I made it for a very bookish boy in our family and it got me to thinking that maybe you’ve got a book-loving kid in your circle as well. It blessed me so much when this kiddo looked at the card and said he was going to save it in his keepsake box!! I don’t know what else is in that box, but it sure made me smile! 🙂
Let me tell you how I made it!
I started out with the Shelved die and cut it out from five different colors of card stock….one for each book. I just used one of them as the base layer, cut apart the books from the other four colors, and layered one from each color on top of the base layer.
PRO TIP: Technically, this means you’ll have enough books left over to make more cards in the same color palette, if you want to knock out a few cards all at once!
PRO TIP: ALSO, you could easily swap out the colors to make this a really fun girly, if you wanted!
In each case, before I glued the book down, I added the stamping and then added a few die cut spine details as well, that I had leftover from a previous project!
PRO TIP: Always tuck those leftover die cut bits back into the envelope with the die! Next time you’re using that die, you might be able to add some of those details onto your new project!
For the Make a Wish, I used the Four Square Birthday Tags stamp and die, and when I stamped the sentiment, I inked it up in two colors, and then before stamping, blended with a blender brush by just tapping along the line of ink where the two colors met on the stamp. Then, when you stamp, you get a nice soft blend rather than a harsh line.
PRO TIP: You can use this same technique on any sentiment or image where there’s a larger surface, such as those chunky letters!
Hope I’ve given you a little inspiration today!
Thanks so much for spending a bit of your day with me and happy card-making!
xo,
Dawn
