My card started with an online cardmaking summit where Sarah, from
Craft With Sarah, was teaching Fold Out Flower Cards. The sample she used to teach us the technique included a dog silhouette image she sourced from Cricut Access and a variety of Fold Out Flowers cut files (
Sarah generously supplied the SVGs during the class). I don’t have a Cricut cutting machine or Cricut Access, but I had the perfect pampered pooch image to use in my stash, the Labradoodle digital stamp from the Dog Tales digital stamp set by Beccy from
Beccy’s Place. Unfortunately I can’t share a link to this cute furry set as it is now discontinued but I can share some links to others from Beccy that will tempt and inspire you to get creative.
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Of course, if you’re more of a furry feline person,
Beccy has several cat digital stamp sets in her store:
Last but not least, here is the link to the
Beccy’s Place Store. Beccy has a wonderful variety of digital stamp designs in her store, with delightful inspiration and tutorials on her
Beccy's Place Blog.
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Anyway, back to my “A Dog’s Floral Tale” card ...
This top folding card is 7” x 5” and features the cute Labradoodle digital stamp from the Dog Tales digital stamp set by
Beccy’s Place. When I opened the digital image in Silhouette Studio, the black and white digital stamp was surrounded with a cut line, so to make life a little easier, I filled the image with black, so that I had a solid shape to work with. To make it even easier to follow along with the tutorial, I flipped the image, so that the Labradoodle was facing the opposite direction. It took quite some time to combine the fold out flowers with dog to make the design for my card and I am thrilled with the new techniques I learnt along the way. Even though they were specific for Cricut Design Space, I was able to improvise and work out how to carry out the steps in Silhouette Studio.
Once I was happy with the design, I cut the “image panel” using my Silhouette Cameo cutting machine. WOW!!! Even without the flower petals folded out, the detail was so pretty and delicate, some outlines less than 1mm thick.
The next step is to fold out the flower petals, yes, sounds strange, but it makes it easier for adhering the panel in place. I cut a Charcoal Pearl Cardstock panel to mat-back the design then carefully applied liquid adhesive to the back of the delicate cut panel then even more carefully aligned the panel in place. The matted panel was then adhered to a 7” x 5” white panel, which was then adhered to a 300gsm 7” x 5” card base. The cardstock layers were quite heavy and needed a sturdy card base. Lucky last came the final fold out, carefully folding out the delicate petals so that there was plenty of dimension and the luscious metallic cardstock peeking through from behind each one.
What do you think?
I was excited to learn a new cardmaking technique
and find a new way to use my digital stamps.
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INGREDIENTS
- Labradoodle digital stamp
- sorry, this set is now discontinued
textured white cardstock
Silhouette Cameo - to cut the Labradoodle floral panel
sharp craft knife + self healing cutting mat + steel ruler
- for cutting matting layers + card base
300gsm smooth cardstock - scoreboard - bone folder
- to make 7" x 5" top folding card base
Tombow Mono Multi glue - to adhere delicate Labradoodle floral panel
Helmar 450 Quick Dry liquid adhesive - to adhere matting layers
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I have entered my cards in the following challenges:
