Wildlife Cards Tutorial

Hello friends! This month the Eileen Hull Inspiration Team is making cards, and don't miss all the inspiration. Most dies work great for cardmaking and even 3D type dies can often be used for cards. It is a great way of getting more out of your dies. I made two cards for this post, using similar techniques. 

I like digging into my scrap paper box to find little treasures to use for cards. Both the embossed panels and the misted paper used here were found in my scrap box. The folders are Eileen's Sizzix Sunburst & Waffle set. I also used the Luggage Tag die and the Passport Book die and new lovely stamps by Darkroom Door. I like having these types of cards available, cards that work for many different occasions.

The embossed papers are left-overs from a gelli printing session. I used them to press patterns into the paint on the plate. Sometimes my favourite parts of that process is the embossed papers themselves. These two papers are from the printing session I had when I made a Recipe Box Journal for Leo. It's a tutorial too, if you want to see how to get embossed papers looking like these.

The Passport Book die has covers as well as inside pages, and the inside page part is a perfect card. The holes meant to be used to attach the pages to the book, are perfect if you want to tie a string or a ribbon to your card. If you need to make a lot of cards, using this die to cut the base for the cards, would speed things up a lot. I used a watercolour paper misted with Distress Spray Stains. For a recent project using the Passport Book die to make a book, check out my Halloween Passport Book Tutorial. 

The Luggage Tag was die cut from brown Paper Leather. I also used the inside piece.

Stamp with a text stamp and ink with Ground Espresso.

The paper inside the tag was left-over from the misted piece. Stamp to giraffe from the African Trees set, and a sentiment from Wild Africa Vol. 1. I love these stamps and they make me think of South Africa of course.

The elephant and the birds come from the African Trees set (isn't that wonderful flying bird stamp?) and the sentiment is from Wild Africa Vol. 2. Stamp on the left-over piece from the Luggage Tag.

 I added some texture with the Spritzer Tool and a Ground Espresso marker.

Assemble the embossed panels on a darker brown mat and finally on a folded craft card. All the edges were rounded with my Corner Chomper. The tag was adhered with foam dots for dimension and I added Design Tape and a piece of burlap behind it. The painted embossed paper makes for such an interesting background.

Aren't the giraffe cute! I love how they are walking along. 

 Press the Design Tape down to reveal some of the embossed pattern through it.

The random look of these embossed papers are such fun. Another example of where I used these papers, is this Artful Dwellings layout.

Here's the finished smaller Passport Book card. I cut a panel from the embossed paper and rounded the corners. The corners are already rounded on the Passport Book die cut, as well as on the inside piece from the Luggage Tag. As on the larger card, I added Design Tape and burlap to the background, and the embossed panel was adhered with foam tape.

I love elephants, and this silhouette stamp is wonderful. I stamped only the first part of a longer sentiment.

 The brown Paper Leather looks nice together with the vibrant painted paper.

 I tied a string through the holes in the cardbase. You could also hang something from the string.

This is the inside of the smaller card. I love this quote from J.R.R Tolkien, and I have a longer version of it on a canvas in my studio, that I made especially to use this quote. You can see the tutorial for that Roots Canvas here.

Thank you so much for stopping by here today! I hope it inspired you to make some cards!

Happy crafting!

Anna-Karin

Supplies:

Sizzix ScoreBoards XL Die - Book, Passport	Sizzix ScoreBoards Die - Tags, Luggage	Sizzix SUNBURST AND WAFFLE	Sizzix Textured Impressions Embossing Folders 2PK - Sunburst & Waffle Set	Darkroom Door AFRICAN TREES
Darkroom Door WILD AFRICA VOLUME 2	Darkroom Door WILD AFRICA VOLUME 1	Darkroom Door TORN TEXT Background	Sizzix Paper Leather Sheets - 8 1/2" x 11" Assorted Basics	Sizzix PAPER LEATHER SHEETS ASSORTED BASICS 8.5x11
Tim Holtz TEXTURED SURFACES	Canson MONTVAL SPIRAL WATERCOLOR 9x12	Ranger Archival Ink Pad JET BLACK	Tim Holtz Distress Ink GROUND ESPRESSO	Tim Holtz Distress Spray Stain EVERGREEN BOUGH
Tim Holtz Distress Spray Stain CRACKED PISTACHIO	Tim Holtz DISTRESS SPRAYER Ranger	Tim Holtz Distress Markers GROUND ESPRESSO	Sizzix BIG SHOT MACHINE Gray And White	Big Shot Machine
Sizzix Accessory - Cutting Pads, Standard, 1 Pair (Mint)	Sizzix MINT Standard Cutting Pads	Sizzix Cutting Pads, Extended, 1 Pair	Sizzix Accessory Cutting Pads, Extended	GelliArts 5 x 7 GEL PRINTING PLATE
Tim Holtz Idea-ology DAPPER DESIGN TAPE	Tim Holtz Idea-ology CORRESPONDENCE Design Tape	Tim Holtz REGIONS BEYOND Design Tape	Prima Flowers ESMERALDA Gypsy Cord	Tim Holtz Tonic GUILLOTINE COMFORT PAPER TRIMMER
Tim Holtz Distress Marker SPRITZER TOOL	We R Memory Keepers Cropadile CORNER CHOMPER	Ranger Inkssentials Non Stick CRAFT SHEET	Tim Holtz Tonic PAPER DISTRESSER	Ranger Inkssentials INK BLENDING TOOL
3M Scotch PINK ATG ADVANCED TAPE GLIDER 1/4	Ranger ADHESIVE FOAM BLACK	Tim Holtz TINY ATTACHER Stapler	Hero Arts CLEAR ACRYLIC BLOCK 3 by 3	Hero Arts SMALL BLOCK TRIO CLEAR ACRYLIC BLOCKS

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