January Card Club - Card #2 - corrugated paper, raffia, and little tag with die cut elements

 For our second card I decided to make use of some of my corrugated cardboard which has been around for a while.  I cut a strip off the larger sheet and made up my sample.  When I cut the next strip I cut it from the other side and so I have some going horizontal and others were vertical.  They both work!! I cut some 2" paper strips from a variety of colours which coordinate well with the kraft colour of the corrugated cardboard and then worked on the focal element.  I cut the tags (CB) from a thick chipboard with a fold which gave it a bit of texture.  I die cut the small elements from colour cardboard if they were solid.  If not, then I backed the open ones with a different colour of cardstock which made them sturdy.  I mounted the strip, added the little tag and then made three holes with my awl  -  hole in the tag, and one on each side of the strip - for stitching in the raffia.  We threaded a large needle with our raffia - down the middle hole in the tag, up one of the other holes, across the front and down the other hole and back up the hole in the tag.  Both ends are now in the hole and on the front.  I put the length across between them and tied a knot.  Unfortunately, I had not measured the raffia on my sample so I estimated and in the end I cut the ones for the kits a bit too short so they could not be made into a bow.  We improvised and it was OK.  The last thing to do was to add our little die cuts onto the tags with 3D foam tape.  I really like the texture on these cards!!  Therese