Aloha, all!
Today’s tutorial is a quick and easy way to tie a knot on the front of a greeting card. For this "friend" greeting card, I used the following supplies. Click here for the tutorial on tying the knot on the front of the card.
Stamp Set:
- All Holidays
Card Stock:
- Very Vanilla – 3-5/8" x 4-7/8" and 5-1/2" x 8-1/2", folded into a 4-1/4" x 5-1/2" card
- Not Quite Navy – 3-7/8" x 5-1/8"
- Riding Hood Red – 4" x 5-1/4"
Designer Series Paper:
- Bella Bleu
Accessories:
- Riding Hood Red Striped 5/8" Grosgrain Ribbon – 2 pieces: 6-1/2" – 7" long; 5" – 6" long
- Sticky Strip
- Not Quite Navy Classic Stampin’ Pad
- Sizzix Texturz Plates: Stampin’ Up! Backgrounds I
Instructions:
- Stamp the saying, "My Good, Kind & Wonderful Friend" in Not Quite Navy on the lower right corner of the Very Vanilla Card Stock.
- Emboss the Very Vanilla Card Stock using the Sizzix Big Shot and the Texturz Plate. (Don’t have one! Give me a call and I’ll demonstrate for you!)
- Layer the Very Vanilla Card Stock onto the Not Quite Navy Card Stock using Sticky Strip. The reason I use Sticky Strip and not SNAIL is to make sure that I don’t flatten out any of the embossed texture. (See Note below.)
- Attach the ribbon and tie the knot. Instructions for the knot are here.
- Layer this onto the Riding Hood Red Card Stock.
- Layer all of this onto the Designer Series Paper
- Finally, attach your completed card front onto the folded Very Vanilla card and send it to a favorite friend!
(Note: This is different from the card shown above; for the above card, I wrapped the ribbon (the following step) around just the Very Vanilla layer, not around both the Very Vanilla and Not Quite Navy Layer. I like it better wrapped around both layers, but I like the way I stamped the above card better. Can’t have everything all the time!)