A Dog’s Floral Tale

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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Here are some other dog digital stamp sets that Beccy has in her store: Ruff Day digital stamp set + Holiday Hounds digital stamp set + Paw Prints digital stamp set

Of course, if you’re more of a furry feline person,

Beccy has several cat digital stamp sets in her store:

Cat Tails digital stamp set + Christmas Kitties digital stamp set + Scaredy Cats digital stamp set + The Cat’s Meow digital stamp set + The Three Tenors digital stamp set

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

Dog Tales digital set from the Beccy's Place store

- Labradoodle digital stamp

- sorry, this set is now discontinued

textured white cardstock

Silhouette Cameo - to cut the Labradoodle floral panel

Charcoal Pearl Cardstock - Sizzix Opulent Cardstock Pack

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:

June Challenge at Beccy's Place Challenges