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One Sketch, 6 Ideas

Posted on 21 October 2008 by Tracey Grundy

It’s a simple idea but we’ll give you a sketch of a card or layout and show you 6 different ways of creating cards using that sketch. Tracey Grundy shows us 6 different cards on a really simple sketch.

New Born Baby Girl - This A6 card (15cm x 10.5cm) is ‘hinged’ at the top of the card which is ‘landscape’. The border is a yellow ribbon where the ‘bow’ has been tied separately and adhered over the top of the ribbon. The embellishment and sentiment are in the form of a chipboard embellishment which has had ‘tails’ adhered underneath in the same ribbon as the border. The bottom of the card has a vellum sticker adhered. The top of the card has the remainder of the border from the bottom which were trimmed off placed in the adjacent corners.

New Born Baby Girl - This A6 card (15cm x 10.5cm) is ‘hinged’ at the top of the card which is ‘landscape’. The border is a yellow ribbon where the ‘bow’ has been tied separately and adhered over the top of the ribbon. The embellishment and sentiment are in the form of a chipboard embellishment which has had ‘tails’ adhered underneath in the same ribbon as the border. The bottom of the card has a vellum sticker adhered. The top of the card has the remainder of the border from the bottom which were trimmed off placed in the adjacent corners.

With love on your birthday - This square card measuring 15cm x 15cm has the ‘hinge’ at the top of the card. The border is a ribbon with flourishes. The embellishment is a heart made up of two layers, both drawn and cut by hand and inked with white Staz-On. The sentiment has been made with a Dymo machine. The card has also been decorated with hand drawn flourishes which have been coloured in with a white pen.

Hello - This card is the same as the ‘Mothers Day’ card, with the ‘hinge’ at the top of the card. In this case the border is in fact a vellum sticker. The embellishment is the negative sections of a chipboard flower which has been coloured with Glitter Sakura pens, and finished with a large orange brad. The sentiment at the bottom of the card has been done by hand with a permanent pen.

Happy Mothers Day - This card has the same dimensions as an A6 card (10.5cm x 15cm) but has been cut so that the card is ‘hinged’ at the top instead of the side of the card. Ribbon has been used as the border, along with buttons to embellish. Rather than having the embellishment over the ribbon, in this case there is a flower with knotted ribbon for the stalk, crumpled suede paper which has been inked, for the leaf and a rub-on for the sentiment at the bottom of the card.

Happy Mothers Day - This card has the same dimensions as an A6 card (10.5cm x 15cm) but has been cut so that the card is ‘hinged’ at the top instead of the side of the card. Ribbon has been used as the border, along with buttons to embellish. Rather than having the embellishment over the ribbon, in this case there is a flower with knotted ribbon for the stalk, crumpled suede paper which has been inked, for the leaf and a rub-on for the sentiment at the bottom of the card.

Happy Birthday to you - This A6 card measuring 10.5cm x 15cm has the ‘Birthday’ candle as the embellishment in the middle of the floral border which also doubles up as the text for the rest of the sentiment.

Happy Birthday to you - This A6 card measuring 10.5cm x 15cm has the ‘Birthday’ candle as the embellishment in the middle of the floral border which also doubles up as the text for the rest of the sentiment.

Dad - This square card measuring 15cm x 15cm has the ‘Dad’ sentiment on a punched scalloped circle. The border is a brown suede ribbon (approx. 2.5cm thick). The bow has actually been tied separately to the rest of the ribbon then adhered over the top.

Dad - This square card measuring 15cm x 15cm has the ‘Dad’ sentiment on a punched scalloped circle. The border is a brown suede ribbon (approx. 2.5cm thick). The bow has actually been tied separately to the rest of the ribbon then adhered over the top.

With love on your birthday - This square card measuring 15cm x 15cm has the ‘hinge’ at the top of the card. The border is a ribbon with flourishes. The embellishment is a heart made up of two layers, both drawn and cut by hand and inked with white Staz-On. The sentiment has been made with a Dymo machine. The card has also been decorated with hand drawn flourishes which have been coloured in with a white pen.

With love on your birthday - This square card measuring 15cm x 15cm has the ‘hinge’ at the top of the card. The border is a ribbon with flourishes. The embellishment is a heart made up of two layers, both drawn and cut by hand and inked with white Staz-On. The sentiment has been made with a Dymo machine. The card has also been decorated with hand drawn flourishes which have been coloured in with a white pen.

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1 Comments For This Post

  1. debbee Says:

    Great sketch and love how you have shown all the different variations on it. This sketch could be used for any occassion - brilliant. ;)

    xxDebbiexx

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