Hi everyone! How are you my creative and crafty friends?! It's my turn up on The Greetery Blog today to share a project with you! And of course I'm sharing my project with you here too! Yay! I am always so excited and happy to share with you. Hope you're doing great! I am still so in love with the new Greetery release and I decided to make another project featuring some of the new items. I was inspired by the awesome Award Winning dies and really wanted to make a more vintage/masculine project using them. It's always fun to see how using a different color palette or style can change the look of our favorite stamps and dies... Happy Friday and Happy Weekend! Let's get started!
My finished card is an A2 cream card base. I covered it in diamond harlequin paper and then layered the Postage Die in cream. The star of the card is the Award Winning Dies! I used the XOXO from the Just My Type Dies to make the center of the award stand out. This patterned paper is from a (very) old paper pad in my stash. Feel free to see this as a message to use all your hoarded stash! LOL! This card has a really vintagey masculine vibe - totally different than my other card using these dies. Love it!
I started this card by die cutting all the pieces of the award using patterned papers and cardstocks. I generously inked up all the pieces with Antique Linen Distress Ink to make it all look aged and vintage. In between the bottom two layers of the award, I created a rosette layer by folding strips of paper in an accordion fashion. Then I glued all the layers together to make my award. In this photo you can see all the layers and pieces!
I die cut the XOXO using silver and black cardstocks and attached it to the award using foam dots. I added a mirrored heart Tim Holtz charm also. Finally I added a couple silver streamers die cut from the Honeycomb Balloons die set. I like the little pops of metallic in with all those rich colors....
I used my fingers to gently turn up the bottoms of the ribbons....More dimension!
It is always nice to have some masculine cards on hand for the guys in our lives! My husband loves the vintage look, so he will most likely be the recipient of this card for our anniversary this year. That's it for my project for today! I hope you have a fantastic and creative day! I look forward to sharing with you again soon. In the meantime, happy crafting! XOXO
I too love this!
You are such a creative soul! MARK will LOVE this!!!!!
Have a wonderful weekend!!!!!
Posted by: Christine Dol | 05/24/2024 at 01:35 PM
Wanda, this REALLY IS, QUITE SMART! I LOOOVE the Vintage Papers!!! Mark will LOVE THIS! ;)
Posted by: Becky Green | 05/24/2024 at 10:24 AM