This eighth tunnel card completes my special occasion cards for my family for the month of September. You can check out my first one
here. It has been really good to strech creatively and try something new. It has enticed me to use the "special" paper and that has been fun too. I have more than I will probably ever be able to use so it is time to use the peices I like and pass the others off to bless others!! For this card I used a soft peach floral for the card and a soft peach for the tunnel. I used a label die (SX) to cut the opening in the center of my tunnel. I stamped and embossed the greeting and the flower (Magenta) and embossed them in copper embossing folder. I used the same copper pigment ink to stamp the flowers onto the tunnel but did not emboss them. I trimmed the flaps with scallop decorative scissors. I added the tunnel to the inside of my card by adhering the two flaps to the card. I used the label die cut from the tunnel to decorate the front of my card. I die cut a smaller label from the middle of it and turned it over and used regular tape to put it back in the opening. It gives a really nice contrast and coordinated nicely with the copper on the inside. I embossed it with the Swiss Dot embossing folder (CB). I die cut a little image for inside and added it with 3D foam tape. I used double sided tape to add two lengths of green ribbon to the front in a diagonal pattern trimming the ends to the edge of my card. After I was finished I adhered my large focal element to my card front. Thinking it still needed a "bit of something" I added seven copper sequins to the front. That was better!! Therese
This eighth tunnel card completes my special occasion cards for my family for the month of September. You can check out my first one here. It has been really good to strech creatively and try something new. It has enticed me to use the "special" paper and that has been fun too. I have more than I will probably ever be able to use so it is time to use the peices I like and pass the others off to bless others!! For this card I used a soft peach floral for the card and a soft peach for the tunnel. I used a label die (SX) to cut the opening in the center of my tunnel. I stamped and embossed the greeting and the flower (Magenta) and embossed them in copper embossing folder. I used the same copper pigment ink to stamp the flowers onto the tunnel but did not emboss them. I trimmed the flaps with scallop decorative scissors. I added the tunnel to the inside of my card by adhering the two flaps to the card. I used the label die cut from the tunnel to decorate the front of my card. I die cut a smaller label from the middle of it and turned it over and used regular tape to put it back in the opening. It gives a really nice contrast and coordinated nicely with the copper on the inside. I embossed it with the Swiss Dot embossing folder (CB). I die cut a little image for inside and added it with 3D foam tape. I used double sided tape to add two lengths of green ribbon to the front in a diagonal pattern trimming the ends to the edge of my card. After I was finished I adhered my large focal element to my card front. Thinking it still needed a "bit of something" I added seven copper sequins to the front. That was better!! Therese
