Thursday 21 April 2011

A bookmark card

Good morning, peeps!
Just a quick post this morning to show you a bookmark card I taught in a class last Tuesday.

This is the card when it's closed and you can see that the bookmark itself forms the right-hand part of the front. The beautiful geisha and the wonderful sentiment are from Clarity Stamps and I thought that the geisha teamed beautifully with these gorgeous Basic Grey Kioshi papers. They've been around for a while now but I still love the colours and designs in them. The geisha's kimono is paper pieced with DP from the Prima 'Sparkling Spring' collection. I thought it would be rather nice to give her a patterned kimono rather than a plain one just cooured with Copics, my usual medium.
Here is the inside of the card:

More Clarity Stamps in the cherry blossom and the verse. I just added a little colour with water colour pencils to add interest and a butterfly punched, like the one on the front, with a Martha Stewart Monarch Butterfly punch. The bling was added with Glamour Dust.
One final peek at the bookmark itself:

This card is really easy to make, it's basically a gate fold card with the fold off centre and then the bookmark is held in place with bands of ribbon (from my stash). Having said that, it did take me a while to work out how it was going to be put together. It's one thing organising a bookmark card class and another actually designing the card itself, methinks!!
Thank you so much for your visit and your comments if you leave one - I really do love to read them.
I'll be back tomorrow with the next challenge card.
Hugs




5 comments:

  1. Hi diane,
    your card is just stunning and so perfect in detail. Excellent idea
    Love jo x

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  2. How lucky the people were who attended your class - not only did they learn a new technique in making this card but they also were taught how to colour a beautiful card the Diane way. Love your choice of papers/colours and everything about this.

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  3. Beautiful card Diane and I love this technique. Pray please share next time we meet, x

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  4. A beautiful bookmark Diane and a beautiful way to present it too. I love Oriental images, this one is gorgeous and the paper you used for the kimono is perfect, it has the perfect patters. Hugs, Chris x

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  5. Beautiful card - love it, love it, love it !!

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