Classy but Festive

Lydia here today! I made card sets for some people for Christmas, and I wanted the sort of bright and festive birthday cards to also look classy and grown-up. The thing I love about the metallic tapes is that I can get the look of foiling without digging out my laminator and all those foiling supplies! So after I stenciled my cards with stencil brushes, I added a strip of the 1/8" gold tape and voila! A classy AND fun card.

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This card was part of some card sets that contained four Birthday cards, four sympathy cards and four thank you cards - I figured those are the most used cards. They loved them. You can see the other cards and how I packaged them at this blog post. 

Hello Beautiful by Giovana Smith

Hello everyone! Hope you all have a great Christmas/Holiday season, I relaxed and didn't do as much as I wanted, but it OK, sometimes you need to slow down.

So today, I have an elegant card for you, the steps are very simple and easy. " This card is a 6" x 6" square.

Step 1: Gather all your materials together, I ended up using 1/4" gold metallic and 1/8" white.

Step 2: Cut a piece of patterned  paper, this one is 2" x 5.25", then apply the 1/8" Gold Metallic Tape every 1/4" (as seen in picture)

Step 3: Now add the 1/8" White Crepe Tape in between gold tapes.

Step 4: Add piece to  5.25" x 5.25" patterned paper.

Step 5: Add a piece of 1/4" Gold Metallic Tape to die-cut border panel.

Step 6: Add sentiment a heart, Add embellishments.

Here is the final look. Love the color combo and the gold and white tape really add an extra elegant touch.

Hope you like it!

Have a fantastic day!!

DRESSING UP JANUARY!

Happy New Year! 

Karen here with a calendar panel thats easy! 

I used some cute left over scraps and made the bg. 

Instead of making strips of paper for the layers I've used Rainbow Tape! The Metallic Purple 1/8" and Silver 1/32" gives it just a little shimmer! I love how easy the White Crepe Tape is to color with Copics. This is a great way to insure that your elements match perfect with your colored images. 

Speaking of images...How adorable are these from IO!

Here is a closer look at the Rainbow Tape. 

 Thanks for Looking!

To see more details and product used you can go to my blog

www.paperliliesandink.blogspot.com