Tuesday, 3 July 2018

Karen Burniston's July Designer Challenge Card

Good morning friends

Welcome to the July Designer Challenge - this month Karen Burniston's theme for us is "Sweet Summer". 

This card took on a life of it's own as I was making it. I started with some new 12 x 12" papers that I picked up - there were two sheets of Cut-Aparts. I had to buy two of them as there were really cute 4x4" designs on both sides of the paper and I couldn't decide which side I liked best. So I bought two sheets and used both sides! The first thing I did was cut each 4 x 4" panel from the sheets. The one for the front of my card had the words 'Just add H2O', so I carefully cut each word into a rectangle.


I nested one of the Crosshatch Squares inside a Crosshatch Rectangle, to cut a sort of 'Polaroid' frame, as my first thought was to make the front a shaker card. Instead I layered the cut out words with a couple of the Beach Charms cut from coordinating colours and patterns.


Even though it's a Pop-Up card, it folds completely flat for mailing!


Inside I used the Katherine Label Pop-Up to animate the Happy Birthday Rectangle, and adhered fussy cut sunglasses to the bottom edge. A second pair of sunglasses was cut from another one of the 4 x 4" Cut-aparts and adhered with the camera Cut Apart on the left side.


The 'Sunshine' word was cut from the label strip on the patterned paper I liked the font. Nothing went to waste from these sheets!  The sun is from the Tropical Scene die set, and I added some glossy accents to it and the camera lens.


You get so much dimension from the Katherine Label Pop-Up and you can add all kinds of things onto the pop-up arm.



I hope you will check out the rest of the Design Team - their blogs are linked on the right. Tomorrow (Wednesday) Karen Burniston will have her project on HER BLOG and you will want to check that out as well.

Supplies:
White card stock
1056 Squares, Crosshatch - Karen Burniston
1054 Rectangles, Crosshatch - Karen Burniston
1051 Beach Charms - Karen Burniston
Cut-apart - Simple Stories
Yellow patterned paper - Simple Stories and scraps from my bin
1037 Tropical Scene (sun) - Karen Burniston
1011 Katherine Label Pop-Up - Karen Burniston
1030 Happy Birthday - Karen Burniston
Metallic circle peel-off's - Stampendous
Nuvo Crystal Drops
Glossy Accents
Banner punch - Stampin' Up
White Gel Pen - Sakura
Wink of Stella
Copic Marker

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