Instructions for Hidden message card

Hidden message card

                                                                            

What you need

Woodware Clear singles stamp –Grape Hyacinth JGS288
Woodware clear singles stamps – Tulip JGCL532
D-lites corner die
Spellbinders oval die
Cloud embossing folder/mask
Verse Stamp/computer print out (that will fit the oval die)
Black dye based ink pad (Memento/Distress)
3 x A4 White
1 x A5 Pale blue card
White chiffon ribbon ( cut to 2 x 10” and 2 x 7½”)
Stormy sky distress ink

Promarkers used                              

Grape Hyacinth                                                          Tulips

Powder blue                                                                Copic RV000 –Pink
China Blue                                                                  Magenta
Orchid                                                                         Pink Carnation
Apple                                                                          Sunflower
Grass                                                                           Lavender
Bright green                                                                Orchid
Copic G28                                                                   Amythyst
Copic Y000 –Pale Lemon                                           Grass
                                                                                     Bright green

                                                                                     French Navy

 

                                                                              

How to make this card

1. Using one of the A4 sheets of white card cut in half to make two A5 sheets. Distress round the edges with stormy sky distress ink. These will be the outsides of the card.
2. Using one of the other sheets of  A4 white card cut in half to make two A5 sheets and then trim down by a couple of millimetres on the long side and the short side. Distress round the edges with stormy sky distress ink. These will insides of the cards. On the reverse write lightly in pencil ‘wrong side’
3. on one of the pieces stamp and colour the ruffled tulip in the exact centre of the card. On the other use the mask or the embossing folder to create the clouds.
4. Blue tack the insides of the card to the table with the wrong sides facing up. The tulip should be on the right and clouds on the left.  Down the right hand sides put a mark at 15mm from the top and the bottom.
   

On the left hand card mark at 15mm then add the width of the ribbon at the top and bottom.

5. secure the ribbon on the wrong side of the card pass it underneath (i.e. across the right side) and then back up to secure on the wrong side at points A to A, B to B, C to C and D to D.

6. Cut 3 ovals with the Spellbinders die. Stamp and colour 2 of them with the tulips and one with a greeting (optional).

7. Fix one of the tulip ovals to the clouds so that it is behind and central to the crossed ribbons.

8. Fix the verse/greeting oval behind the crossed ribbons so that the greeting faces the tulips and it aligns perfectly.

9. The remaining tulip oval is used to camouflage the where the greeting is fixed to the crossed ribbons. When sticking, make sure that that they all align perfectly.

10. Stamp and colour the grape Hyacinth onto white card using a dye based ink and colour with promarkers. Cut to size and matt and layer with lemon coloured card. Fix centrally to card.

11. You can add your own choice of corner die or use the spellbinders D-lites one as shown in the picture above.