Hello crafty friends. It’s Donna here again, and I have a set of three cards, plus one bonus card for you today. This set of cards combines plain white paper, hand coloured watercolour paper, and a beautiful knit patterned paper from the Sweater Weather paper pad.
The real hero of the story, however, is the Quilt Square 2 die. This die cuts out a fabulous leaf pattern as well as the quilted design that you can see best on the last picture of this post.
Using my die cutting machine, I cut the die from each of the three pieces of paper. With square dies like this, I find that putting it through the machine on an angle helps minimise the creaking noises that the cutter can make when dealing with larger dies. I carefully peeled the pieces from the die, and kept them mostly intact. I then cut a four inch square of scrap paper and added double sided adhesive to the front of it. I cut one extra somewhat sacrificial white leaf to help with the construction of the cards.
First, I used the white border, adding in the green side pieces to help keep the thin border straight. I then laid the red knitted leaf over the top and pressed the pieces into the holes. Doing things in this order meant that I didn’t have to individually piece each card. I then repeated this process for the other three cards, just changing up the colours.
Finally, I had just some pieces of the sacrificial white paper left, so I couldn’t resist making just one more card, this time in teal, and with only two colours, not three.
The sentiment is from the Special Day stamp set. This set has over 20 different sentiments, and I find myself reaching for it all the time.
A coordinated set of these cards would make a lovely gift set. For now, these may be going to different people, but I’m gong to keep this in mind for the future.
Until next time,
Blessings,