Love doves card

Description

A pair of love doves are stamped, and embossed in silver, three times on satin pearl card, cut out and assembled as a 3D design. This is mounted on a pearlescent deckle edge card. A silver Happy Anniversary sticker completes the design.

Materials used

• Pearlescent pearl deckle edge greetings card 104mm x 152mm (4¼ in x 6 in)
• Rubber stamp Stampendous! XXQ002 Love Doves
• Brilliance 3 Colour Ink Pad Twilight (Pink/Lilac/Purple)
• Brilliance White Ink Pad
• Kaleidoscope Embossing Powder
• Clear Embossing Powder
• Silver sticker Happy Anniversary
• Rotring Gel Pens in purple and pink
• Satin Pearl card
• Silver metallic thread
• Double-sided self adhesive foam pads
• Adhesive
• Embossing Heat Tool
• Scissors
• Natural paper
• Border punch

Method

Stamp the Love Doves on two pieces of satin pearl card with the Brilliance 3 Colour ink pad. Emboss with Kaleidoscope powder.

Stamp the Love Doves on a piece of satin pearl card with the Brilliance white ink pad and emboss with clear embossing powder.

Cut out the whole design from one of the satin pearl cards stamped in 3-colour ink.

Cut out the inner part of the design on the second satin pearl card including the doves and hearts.

Cut out the doves and hearts as individual items from the third card that is white embossed.

Mount the first silver card on the pearlescent greeting card using double-sided self adhesive foam pads to give it 3D spacing.

Mount the second satin pearl card on this with foam pads.

Mould the doves and hearts to give them a slightly curved shape. You can do this in the palm of your hand using a fingertip.

Twist three strands of silver thread together. Cut it into two short lengths and use these to suspend the hearts from the beaks of the doves. Fix the thread with adhesive on the back of the doves and hearts.

Mount the doves in position on the design with foam pads. The hearts hang free.

Colour a silver sticker with purple and pink gel pens while it is still on it's backing sheet.

Mount the sticker in position on the greetings card.

Inside the card

A sheet of natural paper is punched with a border punch design and mounted in position using a thin line of adhesive at the top and bottom of the folded spine.

Love doves card made by Mei Carrroll and reproduced with kind permission.

Rubber stamp Stampendous! XXQ002 Love Doves reproduced with kind permission of the copyright owners Stampendous!

This project was originally published at Card Inspirations. It is reproduced here here with kind permission. Card Inspirations are sponsors of the Card Making Inspirations web site.

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