Saturday 10 July 2010

Aperture card & Border tutorial

For this card I decided to use a Martha Stewart straight sided border punch to make the pretty border around the aperture in my card.
To begin, I punched a length of paper with the border punch, and then cut off the entire strip about 1cm from the punched edge.
Next I snipped from the straight edge, between the inner loops separating each one.
Using the same paper/cardstock, I cut an oval with my Nesties, one size larger than the size needed for the aperture and added adhesive around the under edge.
Now carefully starting to stick the border underneath the oval, (from a position which could be covered with an embellishment should the two ends not meet exactly) overlap each piece so that the outer section remains flat.
Because I wanted to make this an aperture card, I then cut out the centre of the oval with my Nestie and cut the same sized aperture in the front of my card.
By chance the border fitted my oval exactly, but I decided on a little embellishment anyway!
For the image I used a Unity Stamp which I printed twice without re-inking in order to get the shadow effect.
It is for these challenges
Stamptacular Sunday Challenge - Aperture Creations
Daring Cardmakers - Seeing Silhouettes
Charisma Cardz - Watch the Birdie
I had an idea that there was a shadow challenge somewhere or other but I can't remember where! Senior moments!
I hope the little tutorial was helpful!

26 comments:

  1. Wow it's brilliant, thank you for showing us how. Beautiful card :o)
    Jackie xx

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  2. Fantastic idea Chrissie, I love the shadow effect on the card it's stunning.

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  3. Hi Chrissie,

    what a lovely card, thanx for this tutorial. It's very understandable!

    Summer greetings,

    Lins x

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  4. Your card is stunning Chrissie,and thanks for the tutorial.xxx

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  5. OMG, you put a lot of work into this and the results are absolutely gorgeous! Beautiful and elegant work. Thanks for joining us at Stamptacular Sunday Challenge this week.
    Hugs,
    Barb

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  6. Wow, wow wow Chrissie you clever girl. My jaw just dropped when i saw your tutorial!!! definitely going to give this a go. Your card is totally beautiful. Hugs Clare xxx

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  7. wow, that's an intricate border! Lovely effect. this is a very elegant card. Thank you for sharing your unique creation with us over at Stamptacular Sunday Challenge.

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  8. Fabulous card Chrissie and a great tutorial - such a clever idea! Thanks for joining in with Daring Cardmakers.

    Lynda xxx

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  9. Fab tutorial Chrissie and such a lovely elegant card!

    Keryn

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  10. Fabulous card Chrissie!
    Thanks for playing!

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  11. Hi Chrissie this is very clever super card
    hugs
    sylvie
    xxx

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  12. OMG Chrissie this is absolutely wonderful I am in awe of you and your creativity and inspiration. The card itself is amazing, so beautiful I love the shadow created with that stamp and the frame is...wow, your tutorial is top notch I am going to bookmark this so I can give it ago.
    Hugs
    Lorraine x

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  13. The card is beautiful and I love the shadow idea. Thanks for sharing the tutorial - such a clever idea,
    Hugs
    Valxx

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  14. Wow, thatns so much for the lovely tutorial, I'm going to have to try that as I have this punch. Thanks for sharing with us at SSC.
    Hugs xx
    Carolyn

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  15. Wow this looks awesome!! So elegant looking!! I love how you have included the tutorial as well. Thanks for joining in with us this week at SSC. hope to see you again soon!
    Hugs Leonie

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  16. Fab tutorial, Chrissie and a really gorgeous card

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  17. Stunning card Chrissie and thank you so somuch for the tutorial. Might have to try it later. Eileen x

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  18. Stunning card, Chrissie - so elegant and classy!! Love it! Juliexx

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  19. This is just such a stunning card Chrissie and a wonderful tutorial too.

    Love
    Victoria
    x

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  20. Your card is really realy beautiful ! I can't find words to describe it ! Congrats !

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  21. What an awesome card and tutorial. My only problem when I tried to put the border around a circle, was that it did not look like yours. I had a few bumps in mine.

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  22. what an absolutely fabulous card and demonstration. Definately worthy of some recognition. And must have taken a lot of patience... the outcome was simply stunning.

    Paula x x x

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Thank you so much for popping by, I appreciate your comments!
Thanks,
Chrissie