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Cinema Saturday #14 part 8
It's my sister's birthday today, and now that I know she has received her card I can finally share it with you. This was actually the second card I made in preparation for the Cinema Saturday Fellowship week, but I liked how it came out so much that I decided to send it to my sister for her birthday card, which meant if I shared it at the time the surprise would have been ruined. Anyway, this card is based on the dress Arwen wears when the Fellowship are leaving Rivendell. It's been so long since I have watched the cinematic release that I can't remember how much you see of it there, but I know you see it more in added scenes in the later movies... so if you don't instantly recognise it I'll forgive you.
The card has a Perfect Plum base with a gate-fold opening. Over the top on the front is a layer of Pale Plum that was wheeled with the Baroque Border wheel using silver ink and then clear embossed. I can't actually remember now how I rounded the corners in the center at the bottom, but I know it wasn't using a corner rounder... either I traced something and cut by hand or, as I suspect, I used the round tab punch, feeding the corner from the back of the punch so only a small section was "punched". Over the top of the embossing are some Eastern Elegance rub-ons (note: NOT Easterling Elegance rub-ons...) and bellow these is a decorative brad from the Styled Silver Hodgepodge tin. Finally, there is a belt made with Purely Pomegranate satin ribbon. To create the design on it I used a silver gel pen and just eyeballed the sketch of the
design from Alley Cat Scratch.
The belt slides off so you can open the card.
Here you get an idea of how I made the belt. I first created a belly-band from cardstock, stuck the ribbon over top, folding over to the back. I cut two more pieces and folded these gate-fold style so the edges met in the middle on the back. These are attached on the inside of the belly-band part of the belt. These were a bit fiddly and initially didn't want to stick (I had avoided using sticky strip as I thought that it's thickness would show edges through the ribbon), but using sticky strip and a few days under something heavy did the trick. You can see where a bit of tape is exposed on the inside of the belt... I've rubbed some baby powder over it so it wasn't sticky any more as it was too awkward to remove it.
Here is a shot of the brad from the back. I spent a little while thinking "how can I have a brad in the middle and it not interfer with how the card opens up?", since traditionally you split the prongs so they lay opposite each other - this would have meant the brad was holding the card closed. The answer was, of course, simple: cut one prong off so it isn't in the way! The brad is only attached to one side and fits nice and tightly so there's no chance it will fall off.
Most supplies by Stampin' Up!
Cardstock: Perfect Plum, Pale Plum
Stamp Set: Baroque Border
Inks: Silver
Accessories: clear embossing powder, Eastern Elegance rub-ons (Spring mini, no longer available), Purely Pomegranate satin ribbon (Spring mini, no longer available), silver gel pen, sticky strip, Styled Silver Hodgepodge
Show watched while creating: Fellowship of the Ring of course!
This month's colour challenge over at thr Elite Challenge Blog is a little different to normal. As you can see above, the colours are Chocolate Chip, Tangerine Tango and Bashful Blue. My thinking was these were "masculine" colours, great for a boys card... and what do I go and make? A girly card with flowers on it! OK, the colours alone make it anything BUT a prissy girly card, still I could have persisted and made something for a guy! I may yet do it, I had one or two other ideas but this one developed faster. To check out the full card and all it's details head over to the Elite Challenges blog.
Challenge 3 from the Inklings Cyberstamp was a colour challenge. My orginal plan with this card was to follow Karen's Sweet Sunday sketch #22, so I started with the large circular element, since that is what I struggle most with. I have a tendancy to use the large Pretties Kit flowers for this, so for something different I went for the large Petal Pizzazz flower. I stamped and clear embossed my flower on Baja Breeze cardstock and had intended to put the Planter Box rub-on over top - but found out that the rub-on is bigger than the stamp! So I jsut put the rub-on on Baja Breeze cardstock and cut that flower out again! I was keen to do another button/brad (hmm... if only I had thought of that for the Benjamin Button Cinema Saturday challenge!) combination and thought that would work well for the flower centre, however it needed something else... A quick search found that this Boho Blossoms punchie was perfectly sized to go under the button, so I put that all together and had my flower done.
It's my sister's birthday today, and now that I know she has received her card I can finally share it with you. This was actually the second card I made in preparation for the Cinema Saturday Fellowship week, but I liked how it came out so much that I decided to send it to my sister for her birthday card, which meant if I shared it at the time the surprise would have been ruined. Anyway, this card is based on the dress Arwen wears when the Fellowship are leaving Rivendell. It's been so long since I have watched the cinematic release that I can't remember how much you see of it there, but I know you see it more in added scenes in the later movies... so if you don't instantly recognise it I'll forgive you.
The belt slides off so you can open the card.
Here you get an idea of how I made the belt. I first created a belly-band from cardstock, stuck the ribbon over top, folding over to the back. I cut two more pieces and folded these gate-fold style so the edges met in the middle on the back. These are attached on the inside of the belly-band part of the belt. These were a bit fiddly and initially didn't want to stick (I had avoided using sticky strip as I thought that it's thickness would show edges through the ribbon), but using sticky strip and a few days under something heavy did the trick. You can see where a bit of tape is exposed on the inside of the belt... I've rubbed some baby powder over it so it wasn't sticky any more as it was too awkward to remove it.
Here is a shot of the brad from the back. I spent a little while thinking "how can I have a brad in the middle and it not interfer with how the card opens up?", since traditionally you split the prongs so they lay opposite each other - this would have meant the brad was holding the card closed. The answer was, of course, simple: cut one prong off so it isn't in the way! The brad is only attached to one side and fits nice and tightly so there's no chance it will fall off.
