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June 16, 2009 - Anything Goes

Created: June 12, 2009
Modified:

"Best Friend Booklet Card" 
Closed 5"w x 4.25"h opens to 35"
                                      
 
I find an "anything goes" challenge one of the hardest to do. Where do you start. Tons of ideas in my head, but which one to pick. The days go on and I still haven't done one. Only a few days left, and I'm busy on most of them, so I bit the bullet and just created... This is the result

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The ribbon is attached to the back of the front page and goes through a slit in the fold. I didn't want to cover up any portion of the front, then wraps around the back page to tie on the edge.

PS to get quotes aligned straight on your page, align the rubber stamp on your acrylic block so the written line is parallel to a straight edge. It really helps.

 

I used white cardstock, cut in half hot dog style, then scored at 5", leaving a small tab on one end. I lay down a piece of double sided tape on this edge and trimmed close to it, then adhered my next folded piece of cardstock. I continued this way until I had 7 pages, trimming off the last section. As you can see from the pic above, the front folds away from you (the reverse of a regular card) and the last page faces you with nothing on the back of it.

I used Pan pastels and a dried out Baby Wipe - Costco brand. If you look closely you'll see that I color around the edges, leaving the central portion either the white of the paper or so light it almost looks like the white of the paper. I feel this gives an inner glow to whatever I put on there. I used a lot of tint colors to get a soft look with just a bit of the pure colors along the very edge of the pages - I didn't want to over power this card with vibrant colors.

I used Peel of Sticky Shapes "Stars" and some glitter. Thermal embossed the quote with gold embossing powder.

 

I rubber stamped each quote onto a piece of tracing paper so I could manoeuvre them and decide where my vertical and horizontal lines would go.

PS: If you notice I also used only Italic type quotes. There is no problem using a combination of different lettering styles, just don't do all italic and then just one of something else. It will stand out and look unnatural. Intersperse the italic with a few of something else so they balance out.

I put a light pencil mark for my edges on my cardstock and then lay down the double sided 3mm tape (love this stuff). Colored in the areas with the Pan Pastels, rubber stamped the quote with a fast drying stamp pad ink. Removed the release paper from the tape and sprinkled a gold and bronze glitter, rubbing the two colors to merge and blend them.

Rubber stamped the fiddleheads and flourish and gold embossed them.


Detail of cups

 

The teacups, I cut out of a piece of cardstock to create a stencil that I could use to color the cups and then as a mask to rubber stamp some flourish designs which were also gold embossed. Did them on a tilt to mimic them hanging in a cupboard. Love this quote.

Rubber stamped the butterfly and mini flourish heart and gold embossed them.

 

 

This is a large quote so it took up most of the page so to add something I created the borders.

 

That mini star is at the top of the flourished Xmas tree. I was just about ready to complain to Suzanne she doesn't have any stars stamps and I was going to have to use someone else's stars... then saw this one - phew!! Both the star and large flourish heart and gold embossed.

 

The finally page mimics the front in that it has no borders and the "Thinking of You" is gold embossed.

 

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