Branching Out Little Pocket Card!
Welcome to our Create With Stamping Friends Inspiration Monday challenges. This week’s inspiration challenge is this beautiful photo to draw inspiration from:
I chose to recreate the little pocket envelope and fill it with branches & hearts:
I’ll even show you how I created the pocket and how I stuffed it full of beautiful layers:
Stampin’ Up! Products Used:
- Stamps: Endless Love
- Inks: Strawberry Slush
- Cardstock: Shaded Spruce, Basic Beige, Pecan Pie, Balmy Blue, Strawberry Slush, Basic White
- Designer Paper: Made With Love
- Tools & Accessories: Endless Love Dies, Branching Out Dies, Strawberry Slush Faux Linen Ribbon, Loose Valentines Assortment, Stampin’ Dimensionals, Tear & Tape, Liquid Glue
Card Recipe:
- Card Base: Shaded Spruce Cardstock 11 x 4-1/4. Score and fold at 5-1/2.
- Layer 2: Basic Beige Cardstock 5-1/4 x 4. Glue to card base.
- Layer 3: Made With Love Designer Paper 5-1/4 x 2. Glue to beige layer at the left.
- Pocket: Pecan Pie Cardstock 4 x 3. Score at 2″ on the 4″ side. Cut a “V” shape at the top as shown below. Add Tear & Tape to the two sides and press in place for form pocket.
- Ribbon: Wrap the ribbon around the pocket and glue to the back. Form a bow with the ribbon adng glue over the ribbon strip. Glue pocket at an angle to card front with Stampin’ Dimensionals.
- Branches: Cut and tuck inside the pocket the following:
- Shaded Spruce Cardstock with the large branch die: Cut 4
- Sign: Create the sign before adding the remaining branches:
- Basic Beige Cardstock 1-1/2 x 1-1/2. Glue over the spruce branches and tucked inside the pocket.
- Basic White Cardstock 1-1/4 x 1-1/4. Stamp the XO with Strawberry Slush Ink. Glue to beige layer.
- Balmy Blue Cardstock with the smaller branch die: Cut 4
- Cut a bunch of the 2 hearts sizes with the dies and Strawberry Slush Cardstock. Glue to the branches.
- Bling: Add Loose Valentines Assortment to the background with liquid glue.
Make sure you visit Create With Stamping Friends to see what Connie created for our team this week and see our newest tutorial Collection too:
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