July 18, 2024 – Papirmølla

Hi, crafty friends. I’m back today with a card I created for the Kort & Godt galleri blog. I love the image sheets they’ve come out with recently, there’s something for everyone. As much as I love to color, this is also fun and a lot faster. This time I used a golf image. On the sheet there are four large images with plenty of space between them, so you can die cut them all if you want. There are also three smaller images that you can use to create smaller focal images, or maybe even decorate the inside of your card. I chose one of the larger ones today. My sister and her boyfriend are avid golfers, so this card would be perfect for either of them.

I die cut my golfer using a basic circle die and decided to use the colors in the image for the elements of my card. This is always a good idea if you want a cohesive design. I die cut a torn paper edge from Powder cardstock from Concord & 9th, before stamping a small background stamp repeatedly across the panel using Powder ink. The image has spatters on it, and I figured this would mimic that. The tone on tone stamping creates a little bit of interest to the blue cardstock without being too distracting. I adhered a strip of Wheat cardstock, also from C9, to the top of the blue panel to give it a more defined edge against the white card base, before adding a couple of layers of cardstock behind it for dimension. I adhered it to a top fold card base I dry embossed using the Angled Mosaic embossing folder from Altenew. This creates a bit of textures and adds interest without distracting.

I glued my circle onto the blue cardstock, lopped off the excess and adhered a stacked die cut word on top. I die cut three layers from white cardstock and one from Wheat cardstock. To finish off the card, I added a black sentiment sticker strip and a few black crystals in different sizes.