Oh So Square

 

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Today I’m sharing my card for the new Daring Cardmakers challenge set this week by our lovely Shabneez. 

Happy Friday!

It's Shabneez here today and this week I'd love to see squares!
Perhaps a square shaped card, a few squares or a multitude of them.
The more the better!

 Click Here for some ideas from the design team

You never really know where an idea for a card will spring from, or how the grain of an idea will turn into a rabbit hole do you? 

Shabneez's challenge came up and reminded me that I've not used my small square punches much recently and got me thinking I could use little squares to make a square shaped frame on a square card - is that already too many squares? Well, there's more to come!

 

I was thinking about this as I was working on another project and using one of the lovely reall deep embossing folders - why not add some embossing to the little squares?  And, oh, I've got a square shaped wax seal stamper....

 

 I started by covering a peice of card with Nuvo Embossing Mousse in, pinks, corals and a tiny amount of aqua.  I sprated with water then embossed it with one of my deep embossing folders, this one is Flowers & Foliage 3D Embossing Folder from Spellinders and because the design is busy with lots of small patterns its perfect for punching 1.5cm squares from.  After embossing I swept a deeper coloured ink pad gently over the top to highliht the embossed.pattern.

 Next I punched the squares, keeping the punch upside down and the coloured side of the car visible in the window of the punch - this way you don't flatten the embossing and you can choose the best bits of pattern to punch out.

I raped a square die to my card front to help arrange the little squares into a frame then glued them in place, then cut two more squares from card coloured with the same shades of mousse for the centre section

I used several shades of wax beads to make the seal, then cut around the square shaped stamper.  I chose some wax beads I thought would match the aqua ink, melted and poure a rough (very rough!) square shape and placed the detail seal into the hot wax square.  

Once cooled I added gold highlights, and when it was dry used a hot pointy tool to make a tiny hole at the side. I added a tiny sentiment tag and bow with d twine and fixed to the card with a wax seal double sided sticker - you can buy them ready to use and they work really well for adding wax seals to projects.

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Thank you so much for coming by.

 I took the chance of a blue sky yesterday to take some camellia and magnolia pictures in my garden so I'll add some at the bottom of this post

 

 Happy Crafting, Take care of yourself,

Kathy xx