Today i share a fun and easy technique
to create a decorative edge on your
cards!
it's time for another Take 2 with Therese at Altenew and i have
two cards to share with you. Today i'm
going to be using
the Statement Flowers and
this is a beautiful floral bouquet....
and this is my pussycat her name's Lili
and
anyway so i wanted to share with you a
fun technique where you can create a
decorative edge
using a coordinating die so because this
bouquet is a nice
big image i thought it'd be great to
share two different ways
to do this with you.
i'm starting with a piece of neenah
white cardstock this is the 80 pound
and i've got it in my misti. Now i have
got a bit of a shim
there you might be able to see and
that's just because this is such a large
stamp i wanted to try this technique
normally i would have adhered my
cardstock onto the misti itself but i
saw this and i thought i'd give it a go
i'm using some of the permanent black
ink from Altenew today because i want to
do some Artist Marker coloring
and by having it in my misti i can
re-stamp if i need to i wasn't sure if i
was going to have to come back in and do
that but i didn't in the end.
The coloring technique that i'm going to
be using today is what i like to call
'messy' coloring with alcohol markers
and basically i'm just laying down a
wash of color
on each of the petals and i've done this
before and
I have only ever done it, i think, with
one solid color
today i decided to come in and blend two
colors that
won't or aren't
technically compatible and just see how
that went
because it's a lovely big bouquet these
flowers are huge really for a card size
and i thought it'd be
a real statement pardon the pun
to have them in really bright bold
colors so
the lids are off to the side i did use
like an orange
and a pinky color and i think it worked
really well.
I find it difficult to restrain myself
and not
make that perfect blend but sometimes
you just want to get that color down and
have it look a bit more washy
rather than that perfect sort of petal'y'
look
i have grabbed a couple of the greens as
well
and and done exactly the same thing with
them so my dilemma was 
I wanted to color with
the artist markers
but i don't like to see the
bleed through color on the other side on
the inside of my cards
so i wanted to be able to die cut
the edge but then i also wanted to
back it and not be able to see it so
this is how i got around that and
created my decorative edge
so i'm lining up the coordinating die
and just holding that in place with some
low tack tape
This tape i'm adhering to the right hand
side because that's going to be cut away
and i've kind of worked out here where i
want to cut
my edge to so i can see where the die is
and i'm using a normal cutting sandwich
for a thin
wafer die and i've made a tick mark
on the back of my card panel so i can
see where i need to cut to
and then where i want cut away
is where i have the double plates if
that's makes sense because that's where
it's going to put pressure
on the die itself and cut it away
anywhere that the die
the two plates aren't the die isn't
going to cut
so because i only had the plate over
that right hand portion
of my image that only cut that side.
Now, don't throw this away, this is
very important.... this is the template
that you can use to create the base of
your card
and make sure it's going to be cut in
exactly the same spot
so i'm holding it in place now this is
going to be a side fold
landscape card i'm holding the edges in
place i've still got that piece of
cardstock adhered on there and
i'm going to do exactly the same thing
again so i'm going to cut away that
right hand portion of the card front
made a tick mark on the back of my card
and i can just roll that through my
machine
it's only going to cut where the two
plates are putting pressure on
the actual die i didn't use my gemini
junior for this because i find
there's a lot of pressure on the gemini
itself
and i was a bit concerned it might add
extra
marks on the cardstock but you could
certainly do exactly the same thing with
your gemini.
how cool is that so i
simply then just scored my cardstock and
folded it you could actually
use a pre-folded card base for exactly
the same
technique i just like to create my own
and Lili's joining me again we've just
been away on holidays and i think she
really missed me
so she won't leave me alone look she
distracted me
i want to make a portrait style card
doing the same thing
so i need to create my card base and i'm
going to actually score it in the right
place
this time this is some Neenah 110 pound
cardstock
got it right hey and i am going to do
this
again exactly the same way as i did the
other one i am actually working
on a separate piece of neenah 80 pound
cardstock here
and i'm
changing this from landscape to portrait
and i'll show you how i get around the
little nooks and crannies in a moment
but i've worked out where i want to cut
my die to exactly the same
wafer thin sandwich only put the die way
in the portion that you want to cut
but you'll notice here it doesn't
actually cut away the whole edge of the
card
so you could do this with a craft knife
and a metal ruler you could do it with a
pair of scissors
you could draw draw it and cut it away i
just happen to have a guide wire in my
trimmer so i used that to make sure i
was going to have a nice
straight edge there for my side fold
portrait card keep that little piece
again
because we're going to use it as a
template exactly the same as you did
before
i'm just laying the die in place again
adhering it with my
very low tack tape i really do need
to shout myself some new pieces of tape
i've got a whole roll here
i don't know why i hoard it is it
hoarding if you keep reusing or just
being thrifty?
i think it's thrifty... and you've got this
by now, seriously, you must this is
like the fourth time i've done it made a
tick mark
roll it through are you bored with it
yet?
but it's the same thing again i can't
reach the die right through so i'm
leaving the template
in place and drawing it with a pencil
where i need to cut
and make it match my previous die cut
easy peasy you could also do this if you
don't have a coordinating die
just by stamping your image and cutting
it away around the edge
and just would be hard to get the two
layers together perfectly but you could
certainly do it on the front
of a card if you color with pencils if
you don't mind seeing the artist marker
coming through then you could certainly
do that too
but it's just something that bothers me.
So i've added some ink splatters
and a sentiment there which is from the
Gradient Stripes
set as well as some black and white
striped paper which is from the
Essential Black & White
paper pack and to attach my front panel
i'm just using my glue tape you could
use whatever glue
you prefer and then i have
already created the Bold Thanks die
i just did this with some black and
white i thought this was a nice bold
sentiment
to go with the black and white stripes
and the big statement
flower love these colors
it's just beautiful together
so for my second portrait
design i wanted to do a two-tone
sentiment so i'm using the same
artist marker colors here to create my
own paper cardstock
and i as i've already said they don't
blend very well
so i've joined them together but then
when i where that harsh edge is for the
between the orange and the pink
i'm actually coming back in with the
pink which is the lighter color
just to help it blend a little bit
better and i've got the hello and hugs
stamp and die set here and i'm
just using the word hello i'm doing the
two layers here i think it needed that
little bit to pop it off this bold
flower on the background
i've got some more of the black and
white cardstock you don't have to
actually
add some design paper on there i just
think
on that inside panel it just really
helps it to pop by having something
behind but you could stamp something or
just leave it white
whatever you prefer and then i just
attached the
panel that i'd created with the flower
which i'd also splatted with some jet
black
ink and then attached the sentiment
sub sentiment from the same set as well
as
some enamel dots. 2 versions
of a decorative edge on a card both for
a landscape and for a portrait card,
i hope you have fun with this idea
and i look forward to seeing you again
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you
