Here are a trio of striped botanical cards inspired by cards made by Dena Rekow of the Creativity Cave. I love the look of this technique and wanted to use it to make an anniversary card for my husband.
Colours in these cards are:
To recreate these cards, you will need:
3 card bases – 8¼” by 5⅞” – scored at 4⅛” – rounded upper left corner – I used Soft Sea Foam, Pool Party & Fresh Freesia
3 Basic Black card – 5⅛” by 3⅜” – rounded upper left corners
3 Basic White card – 5” by 3¼” – rounded upper left corners
3 coloured panels – 5” by 3¼” – rounded upper left corners – I used Soft Sea Foam, Pool Party & Fresh Freesia
3 Basic White card – 5½” by 3¾” – rounded upper left corners
I used a Stamparatus to stamp the image from the Botanical layers stamp set, any stamp positioner would work. The 3 panels of 5” by 3¼” Basic White card and the coloured panels of the same size were mounted on the platform, one at a time and the image stamped in Memento Tuxedo Black ink on each layer.
www.crafty-rootes.com – A trio of striped botanical cards made using the Botanical Layers stamp set
The coloured panels were then cut down in ½” increments starting at the bottom. The first ½” piece was discarded and the 3 other ½” strip in each colour were put to one side.
www.crafty-rootes.com – A trio of striped botanical cards made using the Botanical Layers stamp set
Taking one of the ½” strips from each colour, I lined them up on the stamped Basic White panels making sure that the pattern matched and glued them in place. This was repeated for all three panels.
www.crafty-rootes.com – A trio of striped botanical cards made using the Botanical Layers stamp set
The sentiments were stamped in Memento Tuxedo Black ink and the panels all glued to the Basic Black layers. These were then mounted onto the card bases on Dimensionals.
www.crafty-rootes.com – A trio of striped botanical cards made using the Botanical Layers stamp set
A trio of Classic Matte Dots completed the cards.
www.crafty-rootes.com – A trio of striped botanical cards made using the Botanical Layers stamp set
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