A thank you card for any time of year using the Earthen Textures stamps and dies and the Earthen Elegance paper.
Project Recipe
Measurements:
Copper Clay - 4-1/4 x 11", scored at 5-1/2", 2" x 1-1/4" scrap for small vase
Gray Granite - 5-1/4" x 4" for layer
Pebbled Path - 3-1/4" x 1-1/4" for tall vase die.
Earthen Elegance DSP - 4"1/4 x 2" - cut with the second from smallest long nested essential die
Tartan foil - Copper Clay: 3-1/2" x 2" scrap to cut 2 twigs, 1 palm branch and 1 vase handle from the solid foiled side
Tartan foil - Pebbled Path - 3-1/2" x 2" scrap to cut 2 twigs, 1 palm branch and 1 vase handle from the solid foiled side.
Fold Copper Clay card base in half at the score line and burnish edge with bone folder.
Rub the embossing buddy on the upper right of the Gray Granite layer.
Stamp the sentiment in the upper right in Versamark ink.
Hold your gray granite card base over the powder pal from the embossing additions tool kit. Sprinkle copper metallic embossing powder over the stamped sentiment. Tap off the excess into the powder pal. Repeat with additional copper metallic embossing power and tap off all the excess into the powder pal. Before using the heating tool, funnel the extra embossing powder back into the container and seal it.
Allow the heating tool to warm up for 30 seconds or so. Bring the tool close to the stamped and embossed sentiment and allow the powder to melt. Once it melts move to the next section until the entire sentiment is melted. Do not hold the heat tool too long over the sentiment so as not to warp the paper too much or burn the embossing powder.
Use liquid glue to adhere the Earthen Elegance DSP long nested die cut. Place the DSP with the top edge about 1/3 up from the bottom of the gray granite layer. The die is about 1/16" short on both edges, so it will line up exactly with the edge of the gray granite layer.
Use the tall vase die and the mini cut and emboss machine to cut a vase out of pebbled path card stock. After cutting, emboss the vase using the textured die. I placed tne uneven edge on the bottom of the vase. Adhere the vase Pebbled Path Tartan Foiled vase handle to the vase. There's a point at which the vase is as wide as the handle and that's where I adhered it.
Put a strip of stampin' seal horizontally on the back side of the tall vase near the top. Arrange 2 Copper Clay twigs and a Pebbled Path palm branch behind the Pebbled Path vase using the stampin' seal strip to keep them in place.
Use the short vase textured stamp and stamp the image on Copper Clay cardstock with Copper Clay stampin' ink, then cut the vase out with the small vase die. Adhere the Tartan Foil Copper Clay handle at the top edge of the small vase with liquid glue. The vase handles will extend past the edges of the vase and that's ok. Put a strip of stampin' seal horizontally on the back of the small vase and adhere two Pebbled Path twigs and one Copper Clay palm branch to the back of the vase.
Adhere the tall Pebbled Path vase on the far left side of the gray granite layer using liquid glue.
Adhere the Copper Clay vase to the card, overlapping the Pebbled Path vase and keeping the bottom edge even. If you wish, you may adhere this vase with dimensionals instead of liquid glue.
Use dimensionals on the back of the Gray Granite layer and adhere it to the card base.
Place 3 Copper Clay adhesive-backed speckled dots on your card as desired.
Use the Pampas grass stamp to decorate the Very Vanilla inside layer. Using Misty Moonlight, stamp off once before stamping on the bottom right corner of the layer. Stamp "With Gratitude" in Misty Moonlight.
Use the Pampas grass stamp to decorate the Very Vanilla inside layer. Using Misty Moonlight, stamp off once before stamping on the bottom right corner of the layer. Stamp "With Gratitude" in Misty Moonlight.
Decorate your envelope as desired. I used the pampas grass, small twig in Misty Moonlight and with gratitude sentiment in Copper Clay to decorate the flap. I stamped the small vase in Copper Clay and the pampas grass in Wild Wheat on the front left of the envelope.
Remember that the joy of card making includes the joy of sending your card to someone to brighten their day. Why not mail it now?