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Rose squares

Description

A square deckle edge card has a piece of gold card mounted on the front. On this is mounted a piece of dark blue card. Then four stamped squares are mounted on this with foam pads to lift them from the surface.

Materials used

• Parchment peach single fold deckle edge greetings card 144mm (5.5in) square
• Rubber stamp Magenta 14.107 F Rose
• Gold card
• Dark blue card
• Light blue card
• White card
• Gold inkpad
• Judikins Egyption gold embossing powder
• Encore Imperial blue inkpad
• Stardust embossing powder
• Heat tool
• Double-sided self-adhesive foam pads

Method

Cut a square of gold card 90mm x 90mm (3.5in) using deckle edge scissors. Glue this to the greetings card.

Cut a square of dark blue card 74mm x 74mm (2.8in). Glue this to the greetings card.

Stamp the design in gold on white card and emboss with Egyption Gold. Cut out the square.

Stamp the design in gold on blue card and emboss with Egyption Gold. Cut out the square.

Stamp the design in blue on white card and emboss with Stardust. Cut out the square.

Stamp the design in blue on blue card and emboss with Stardust. Cut out the square.

Mount the four squares on the blue card using double-sided self-adhesive foam pads.

The rose squares card was made by Trish Caudle.

The stamp Magenta 14.107 F Rose is reproduced here by kind permission of the copyright owners Magenta and may not be reproduced elsewhere without their permission.

Please note that this is an old project. It is left here for the interest of the reader. Some of the materials used may no longer be available. We regret that we can not help you find a source of supply for these.