Apr 12
Hello! How’s your weekend so far? I’m hoping to make it a little bit more interesting, with a new tutorial on my freestyle collage style. Here’s the card I’m sharing, followed by the step-by-step instructions - hope you’ll enjoy it!
I started by covering a cream card base with the chevron design, found on My Mind’s Eye Kate & Co. Cambridge Court Medallion Paper (anyone else wonders why MME gives their papers so many names??). I also cut a panel, slightly smaller, from Pink Paislee Portfolio Incredible paper. I’m talking 12″ x 12″ papers here… I’m a shameless hoarder of those 🙂
I embossed the foliage from Penny Black All You Need slapstick stamp set, with Stampendous Jeweled Gold embossing powder. I aimed for a super sparkly and textured effect, hence the choice of powder.
I stamped the sentiment in white ink, twice on a scrap piece of navy blue cardstock (SU! Not Quite Navy).
Cut them both out by hand and inked the edges in white.
I set them aside and went back to the panel. I cut Penny Black Dancing Leaves in vellum, and adhered to the panel and over the embossed foliage, adding a cute staple detail.
Then I created a cluster in the upper right corner, with a part of a Manor House Creations Cheval die cut frame and the two sentiment strips stacked together so that they overlap slightly.
…and added a must-have butterfly 🙂 This one came from Kaisercraft Curiosity Collectables and I stapled it in as well.
At this stage I decided that I want to have a matching, dark accent peeking out from behind the panel and so I adhered a piece of Kaisercraft Porcelain Rose Relic paper to the card base.
Nearly there. I popped the panel up on dimensional tape, on the card front…
…and finished with a couple of gold flat sequins scattered across the image.
TA-DA!
LOVE IT!
What a lovely card…and Thank you for the wonderful tutorial !
Love all your layers and lovely elements!
Amazing layering…something I’m no good at. So happy to see someone who is. Card is lovely.
Love this! Thanks for the great tutorial!
Beautiful - and thank you for the “anatomy” 🙂
Love your freestyle collage and your card! Thanks for the great tutorial!
Lovely card!
Wonderful card! So appreciate your thoughtful tutorials. Thanks!
Love these tutorials! As someone who loves all the layers, but never gets it quite right, I find them so informative!
I love it when you show us how you do your layering. Thanks for sharing.
I love your collage style, Chupa, and this tutorial on your layering thoughts and choices is a wonderful insight into the process of this creation. Thank you for sharing - a really beautiful card:)
what a stunning card - lovely combination of colours.
you are really~truly~extremely talented. 🙂
GIRL!! Where have you been??! Thank you!! So good to “see” you 🙂
Piekna kartka i lekcja bardzo przejrzysta! Jeszcze trzeba miec Twoj talent do dobierania papierow i innych cudow… 🙂 Pytanie na temat MME tez mnie czesto przesladuje, moze maja poetke, ktore te imiona wymysla i sa tak piekne, ze nie moge sie zdecydowac, ktore wybrac, wiec daja wszystkie! Wesolego dla Ciebie i Twojej rodziny!
You make it look so easy, girlie! Um…can you come around to my place and teach me in person? 😉
Thank you for the tutorial and this card is great!