Hello crafty people! I think I may be obsessed with using corrugated cardboard on my cards! This is yet another card that features cardboard that I colored and heat embossed before using it as a background. I wish these cards have made a sizeable dent in the cardboard stash I have, but I have SO MUCH!! So I probably will make a few more before I move onto different Midweek Media topics.
Again, I only had time to make one card for this post as we have a lot going on in my classroom and in grad school. Hopefully I will be able to post two cards again soon.
To begin, I die cut a piece of corrugated cardboard with an A2-sized deckle edged die, and then ran a brown pigment ink across the raised lines of the cardboard and heat embossed them with clear embossing powder. I then smooshed some green and bronze shimmer powder mixed with water, and the embossed powder resisted some of the shimmer powder.
Then I went to work on the leafy vellum layer. Using a green marker, I colored a piece of vellum and then sprayed the vellum with some green spray to help move the color around and add some green in areas that didn’t get colored. Then I used my heat tool to help dry the vellum. A leafy die panel was used to die cut the vellum.
Next came the stamped images–both the giraffe and the sentiment. I used a tan ink and the same brown ink used on the cardboard to stamp the two layers that are part of the giraffe. The giraffe was then heat embossed. Some small stars were stamped around the giraffe with the same tan ink before die cutting the whole thing with a circular die. I then used some more of the bronze and green shimmer powder mixed with water to watercolor smoosh around the giraffe as well as some of the same green marker mixed with water and the tan ink mixed with water to watercolor smoosh the circular element as well. It was put aside to dry.
I stamped two sentiments with the same brown ink and heat embossed them with more clear embossing powder. The sentiment was then trimmed in my paper trimmer, and then added more of the brown ink around the edges.
Finally, I assembled the card. I glued the vellum leafy panel over the corrugated cardboard and then wrapped a piece of gold thread around both a few times. The circular die cut of the giraffe was glued onto the left side of the panel and the sentiment was attached with foam tape. Brown gems (although they look green and blue in the pictures) were glued around the sentiment and the circular die cut. To finish the card, I glued the whole thing onto an A2-sized kraft card base.
Anna York is from Oregon, US. She has been writing for TPC since 2023. Anna started paper crafting in 2008, had a break while her kids were small and started cardmaking again in 2019. Anna mostly makes cards. Her paper projects are often made in sparkly, whimsical style and she loves colors.