I have been enjoying making these front flap cards!! Much different than my usual A2 cards as I am using large envelopes for these which gives me lots of options when I start creating!! I started this one with a large envelope and I created a gray panel card to fit inside. I dug a gray wood grain 12" x 12" sheet of new decorative paper from my large bin and trimmed out a piece to fit on my panel card. I found the second piece of decorative paper in my cardstock stash as it had been printed on gray cardstock. I cut out a piece for my flap, scored a half inch from the top and folded over the little flap. I hooked the flap onto my panel card and trimmed off the bottom to be even with my panel. Because it was cardstock I simply treated it to a black border created with a black permanent marker and then added a hand drawn line on the inside of that with a fine tip Sharpie. Next, I added faux stitching to my panel which was better. The typewriter is a digital image is from CLKER which I sized and then printed on white cardstock. I trimmed the image from the sheet, sponged its edges with green ink and then ran my pattern tracing wheel along all four edges to add yet more texture. I layered my focal element with two shades of green cardstock. I needed to introduce some green to my layers so I used a little solid square stamp (used for the first time today) and created little groups of three on the four corners of my panel card and a raggedy row on my flap. That really helped to tie these elements together!! I adhered my layered focal element off the right hand side of my flap and finished off my card by adding a piece of white bond behind my flap to give me a place to write my message.
Therese
