Jul 17

Modern Geometric Card

Hi crafty friends

I hadn't gotten the chance to play with this set before I went on vacation, so I was excited to pull it out and see what I come up with. I sometimes find modern geometric patterns a challenge in my card making and, I do not gravitate towards them. We all have our own styles, right?

I decided to go BOLD to really show up the geometric pattern. I also thought this kind of pattern would also work well for a male card.

The colours I chose were Limoncello, Mimosa, Begonia, Sage and Warm Buff. Using one colour at a time, I ink blended using the stencils on white cardstock. When I have stencils like this, I find it easier to use a large piece of cardstock in my MISTI and push it to the right bottom corner. Then, I push each stencil into the same corner. It helps line up everything perfectly.

Once all the ink blending was complete, I die cut a panel with the largest of the Blanket Stitched Rectangles. What a perfect die for this!

I chose four of the inks to ink blend rough patches on some white cardstock, then die cut the letters using the Jeff Alpha, which has the perfect modern font and, has lines embossed into the letters when die cut. This coordinated with the edges of the stencilled panel. I then popped these up on the white shadow cuts with foam dots.

Before adding the word BEST, I did a quick splatter on the bottom right for added interest.

The sentiment 'Celebrating You' is from the Beyond Happy Stamp Set. But, do you see the other stamped words at the top? Well, I took that from the Arch Florals Stamp Set. It should say 'You are the best', but I cut off the BEST so it fit for my design.

That's me thinking out of the box! hahaha!