Thank You Acetate Card

 

Hi everyone,

Today I am sharing another Thank You Card:  

The main image panel is a Pre-Coloured Acetate Overlay that already has the silhouette images printed on it.  I bought a bunch of them years ago from Bellbird PaperArts at a Craft Show and found them in my stash when I was looking for something else.  The Acetate Overlays came in a bunch of different colours.   I had totally forgotten about them - but you do forget what you have, don't you?!  

I trimmed the overlay to a square then stamped the Thank You Sentiment with Stazon Jet Black Ink using a Stamp Positioner so I could stamp the sentiment a couple of times to make it nice and dark.  The sentiment came free with a whole set of sentiments from a UK Cardmaking and Papercraft Magazine ages ago, and was designed by Simonne Clay.  This set is one of my most-used sentiment sets and I just love the fonts in the set. 

I added some white cardstock behind the acetate and used 3mm Pale Mustard Brads to attach them together.  You can't use glue because it shows through.

I glued the panel to Black Cardstock then to Mustard Yellow Cardstock - then to a Cream Card Base.

I glued on an Acetate Butterfly with Helmar's 450 Quick Dry Adhesive along the butterfly's body but left the wings so I could bend them up.  I also bought these butterflies when I bought the Pre-Coloured Acetate Overlays.

Finished size is 5-3/8" x 5-3/8" or 137mm x 137mm.

This card will be going to the Nursing Home who took such good care of my late Mother.

Thanks for visiting my blog today.

Jocelyn

Card Recipe:

Stamps:  Sincere Sentiments by Simonne Clay (free with magazine)

Ink:  Stazon Jet Black

Designer Paper:  None

Accessories:  Pre-coloured Acetate Overlay, Acetate Butterfly, Kaisercraft Paper Trimmer, Pale Mustard 3mm Brads, Helmar's 450 Quick Dry Adhesive, Tombow Mono Multi Glue, Doublesided Tape, Stamp Positioner, Square Cream Card Base, Cardstock - Mustard Yellow + Black + White

Thinking of you butterfly acetate card

Hi blogging friends

I am back at long last!  My loved one continues to improve each day which is great so I have had a little bit of time in my craft room this past week.  I was able to go to the Craft Show as planned and had an absolute ball!  It was a cold and wet day so it was perfect weather for craft shopping - and boy, was it packed!!  I did a couple of 'Make and Take' free workshops and learned how to use Perfect Pearls and Perfect Medium which was fun.  I stocked up on lots of Docrafts goodies - Tatty Teddy, Boofle, Forever Friends and Tulip paper tole (called Decoupage in the UK), toppers, designer papers and ribbons. And a couple of Penny Black stamps begged to be bought as well as a couple of Impression Obsession dies (I didn't know they made dies!):  in fact, there were a lot of die brands that I had never heard like Lin and Lene, Joy Craft Happy's and Double do just to name a few.  None of my friends make cards so I always go to shows by myself but there is always someone to talk to who shares the same passion and gets as excited as I do over buttons, ribbons or a piece of designer paper.  I came home utterly exhausted but happy and uber-keen to do some cardmaking - hence today's card - which is very much NOT my usual style but I hope you like it:

Now, I would LOVE to say that I brayered the background but sadly, I did not.  I am sure that my blogging friend Shaz from Calligraphy Cards - Shaz in Oz who is the brayering-queen would be able to make something this pretty but my brayer and I stopped speaking a while ago because he just wouldn't do as he was told - plus being as clumsy as I am, I just seemed to make more mess than anything else!  Bellbird Paperarts in Blackburn (Victoria) sell sheets of printed and coloured acetate and I bought various colours at the last Craft Show that I went to and have been itching to make a card with them ever since; sometimes, it just takes a while to get around to these things as you would understand.

All I had to do was cut the acetate design to the size I wanted and go from there.  I stamped the sentiment using Stazon Jet Black ink which dries on acetate very well.  The first time I stamped the sentiment, part of the image didn't come out and I thought the sheet was ruined so I was very cheesed off.  Then I had a brainwave and tried cleaning off the image with Stazon cleaner and hey presto:  it removed it perfectly!  Once the sentiment was dry, I attached some white cardstock behind the design with brads (obviously you can't glue it as the glue would show under the acetate).  That part of the card making process was a bit fiddly.  Then I simply layered that onto black cardstock, blue and then white.

Lastly, I added an acetate butterfly which I also bought from Bellbird Paperarts (came in a pack of 6 different sizes from memory and are printed on clear acetate) and popped it up using dimensionals under the butterfly's body and bent up the wings.  You can see the dimension in this next photo:

This card is for my stash but is intended for use as a Sympathy card or simply to send to someone to let them know I care or to show support.

Challenges:

I am entering my card in the following 3 challenges -

Splitcoaststampers 'Ways to use it' WT427 May Flowers - where you are to use a flower or flowers on your project

Splitcoaststampers May Fan Club Challenge - Central Theme

Splitcoaststampers Inspiration Challenge IC390 - Jennspendants  - and I chose a pendant as my inspiration and the beautiful blue colours made me get out this acetate sheet and finally make a card with it - and obviously I echoed the squareness of the pendant in my card.

Thanks for stopping by and for any comments that you care to leave.

Jocelyn


Card Recipe:

Stamps:  Sentiment by Stamp-It Australia - siset014 sentiment set

Ink:  Stazon Jet Black

Accessories:  Printed acetate and butterfly - Bellbird Paperarts, dimensionals, aqua brads, cardstock - white, blue, black