Free Card Making Ideas

• Tall card with linen finish
• Floral stamp*
• Pigment Ink
• Silver embossing powder
• Heat gun
• Crystal (clear) glitter Glue
• 4 Diamantes
• Greeting peel off
• Decorating chalk
• Cotton wool
• 3d Foam pads
• Rectangular scrap of card

Instructions

1. Turn your image so that it forms a diamond shape and stamp three times down the center of your card.
2. Now do exactly the same on your scrap piece of card
3. Sprinkle the wet ink with embossing powder and apply heat with the heat gun until it melts, taking care not to place the gun too near the card or it will scorch.
4. Carefully cut out the three diamond shapes and stick on top of the original stamped images on the card, using 3d foam pads
5. Decorate the embossed images lightly with a bit of chalk and then apply crystal glitter glue.
6. Place your greeting peel off underneath the diamonds.
7. Use a cotton wool ball to pick up some chalk dust and roughly dab all around the peel off.
8. Remove the peel off to reveal your 'dry stencilled' greeting.
9. Use the cotton wool ball to apply chalk roughly around the edges of the card - the linen finish on the card gives a nice textured effect here
10. Add a small diamante to the centres of each flower and then right at the bottom of the card

As well as designing personalised handmade cards, Dawn also runs a craft supplies shop in Normanton, Wakefield where you can learn to make her style of cards in the classes held throughout the week. Visit the Diamante Hearts eBay StoreYou may copy the design of the card for personal use.

*The stamp used here is from ©Stamp-It, 2003

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