Friday, August 12, 2011

A Beautiful Card Tutorial from Romy...

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People often ask me how I do all the layering on my layouts and cards, so I thought I'd give you a peek behind the scenes in my scrap/bedroom and show you all the steps of creating the card as shown above.

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I always start with picking a few coordinating papers and lie them in front of me on my desk. I look at them endlessly until I found two or three papers that would go together perfectly as a background for my card.

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When I have decided which two or three papers I want to use as mats on my card, I start cutting them in the perfect size (my card measures 4x6 inch, so the size of the purple rectangle is about 3,7x5,7 inch. Because you will only see a very small edge of the purple paper, I cut out the inner part, so I can use it to punch out a few butterflies. I used sanding paper to distress the edges of the paper.

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I then added the pink layer on top of it.

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After creating the base for my card, I start searching for flowers, stickers and other items that would be perfect for embellishing my card. I simply search through my stash for items that have the same colours or the same feel to it as the papers have.

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I always have way too much stuff laying around on my desk to put on one card, but I just love it to try a few things and move them around until I'm satisfied. I thought this cluster of birds and the three paper layers behind it looked pretty nice, so I decided to start off creating.

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Instead of starting off with the layers behind my embellishments, I worked from top layer to bottom layer on this card by first putting together the embellishment cluster around the sentiment. I fussy cut a few flowers from a sheet of paper and attached them to a Tattered Angels frame.

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To give both the frame and the flowers a shimmery feel, I lightly sprayed on them with perfect pearl mist.

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After that I attached the two Prima birds and the sentiment sticker to the frame. Because the sentiment 'loyal' didn't really fit the occasion I wanted to use this card for, I used alphabet stickers to create my own text and added these to the sticker. 


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Next I started creating a bow to put next to the frame. I simply made two bows for a more elegant and rich look.

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Then I started adding the paper layers and tags to my card. As you can see I decided, during the process of creating, that I preferred the yellowish brown paper instead of the blue paper that I started with. That's the reason I never stick everything down immediately: in that way I am still able to change things up. I also added a small piece of the ribbon that I made the bow with to my card. To make sure its edges wouldn't ruffle, I added a bit of tacky glue to the ends of the ribbon. This will dry clearly and quickly, so you won't see I used glue when the card is all finished.

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I attached the bow to my card and then started further embellishing my card with a couple of the many embellishments I have laying around on my desk. I choose to use a resin heart, pearls, rhinestones and two punched butterflies.

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To further decorate my card I used some of my favourite mixed media: glossy accents, liquid pearls, stickles and crackle accents.

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This is what the card looked like after I decorated it. I randomly added a few dots of pink liquid pearls and decorated it with glitter and gloss.

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Before calling my card 'all finished' I took another close look at it and noticed 'something was missing'. After pondering a while, I found out what I needed and added a small piece of purple paper behind the right bird, so it would stand out a bit more.

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And this is what the card looked like when it's all finished.

I hope you enjoyed this tutorial. Thanks for looking and have a great day!

Hugs,
Romy

3 comments:

phamil said...

Romy, this is just gorgeous! Beautiful work!!

Christina Carnoy said...

That is so pretty!

Gabrielle Pollacco said...

Romy...just love seeing your thought process behind making your cards! They are always so beautiful!! xx