The Big Screen

I had seen quite a few cards of this style on Facebook, Pinterest and blogs and decided to have a go at one myself and I had great fun making this card with its beautiful soft vintage colour. It is a mixture of old and new materials as well, as I have used some of my retired stash for this card. But there is no reason you couldn't use some of the papers from the new catalogue for this style of card. I am thinking something from the Gold Soiree collection would be fantastic.

To make the basic shape of the card, I cut a piece of pistachio pudding card to 28cm long and then scored it at 7cm intervals. the legs of the screen are made using the decorative label punch. 

The tops were created by punching with the scalloped tag topper punch and snipping off the excess. You could border punches to give a pattern along the top, or what about checking out this week's weekly deals and treating yourself to the finishing touches die set.

 I cut some mats from DSP to decorate each panel. I then stamped onto these with the swirl stamp from the beautiful "Everything Eleanor" collection using Versamark ink and heat embossed it with gold emboss powder. I attached them to the 4 panels of the card.

 Using the 2 butterfly punches I punched 4 small butterflies from DSP and 4 large from pistachio pudding card, I dipped the edges of the big butterflies onto the Versamark ink pad and added gold emboss powder and heated it. 

I used some strips of watercolour wonder washi tape across each panel of the screen. I was lucky enough to win mine a few days ago on a SU Facebook competition, but if you are quick you could be lucky enough to pick some up in the weekly deals this week.

I stamped and embossed my greetings from the "Petite Pairs", again in gold and punched them out with the hexagon punch. I backed these onto some oddments of gold mirri card. My finishing touches were using the now retired ruffle ribbon, both along the top and bottom of the panels and around the sentiments. You could ruffle your own ribbon or use washi tape. Just make sure you use sticky strip if you are using ribbon, to ensure a good hold.

Table built using Product Table Builder by The Crafty Owl - Independent Stampin' Up! Demonstrator.

don't forget to check out the weekly deals button on the right hand side for the dies, the washi tape and other goodies including, this week, the cupcake builder punch. you may noy be ableto eat them, but it is still delicious.

Don't hesitate to contact me for any more information about any of these products or the many, many other beautiful things available from Stampin' Up.

Helen

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