Wednesday, October 5, 2011

Flower & Leaf Stencil Card!

I used to keep a stash of all kinds of greeting cards made by me, but lately it seems like I never have a birthday card on hand!  Hmmmm.....could it be because the majority of the cards I give are for birthdays?  That must be it!!!  At any rate, I decided I need to make some birthday cards to have on hand so that when I need one at the last minute, I don't have to break my neck to get one made.  This "stencil" card was done using another digital cutting file by SylviaF at the UK Scrapper site........gosh I love her designs!  If you would like the files, they are free to registered members of the UK site and you can find the files here...just scroll down to #93.  Here is my take on her design (The recipient's name will be added to the bottom of the card front when I know who I'm sending the card to):


Here is a close-up view:


The dark green panel is a metallic card and I hope my photos do justice to it.  I also want to add that the "pop-up" flower in the center was designed by me in my Pazzles Inspiration Pro software and I used my Pazzles Inspiration to cut the card base as well as the light green panel and then I used my CraftROBO to cut everything else except for the tiny butterflies. I discovered something really cool in making this card, I used black stickles on the dew drop in the flower center that I colored black with a Sharpie and also on the center of each of stencil flowers but I noticed that they did not shine like I desired so I decided to add some crystal stickles to make them shine more and to my surprise it turned them to a pretty green shade which was perfect for my card.....love surprises like that!  Thanks for looking!
Finished Card Size:  A7 (5"x7")
Supplies
Paper:  Bazzill (light green), "Empress Emerald" Wausau Metallic Cardstock, Black Recollections (Black Card Base)
Tools:  CraftROBO, Pazzles Inspiration
Accessories:  Martha Stewart "Classic Butterfly" Punch, "Black Diamond" & "Crystal" Stickles

6 comments:

  1. Wow, looks GREAT!!!!

    hugs, Elly

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  2. The flower center is just perfect...don't you just love happy accidents?!?! Great job again Pam!

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  3. Pam I love what you have done with this - it was always one of my favourites!!

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  4. What a lovely card! I sure HOPE all our Cameo issues are addressed soon. One of the major reason I bought mine was exactly for these types of cuts!!

    :) Thanks for sharing !!

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  5. Very nice. But I'd like to know why you use the CraftRobo to cut some of the parts? Which ones and why?

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