Hello there! It's my turn to share a project for The Greetery and today, I wanted to play a bit more with the new Large Lemon set and made a birthday card along with a coordinating gift tag. Won't these be fun to gift together?!
For the card, I layered up a couple of the A2 Stitched Scallops die cuts and topped them with the big ole lemon! Haha! I love that thing! Behind the lemon, I layered one of the new Bird of Paradise Border die cuts.
PRO TIP: You can totally change up how you use that border die cut! It doesn't have to be a border at all, if you snip it apart and use the leaves wherever you need them for your design! In this case, I just cut it in half, making two pieces out of it and then, when tucking them behind the lemon, I angled each section outward diagonally. This creates more of a frame around the lemon AND it hides the bottom "straight edge" of the border die cut, so that you can't tell it's also a border at all!
I used the Large Lemon stencil to add some shading to the lemon and added a bit of ink blending to the bases of a couple of the flower leaves, too.
PRO TIP: Cut three sets of the flower dies -- each set from a different color card stock, and then mix and match the centers so you end up with 6 flowers in a few different color combos that all coordinate with your card!
Lastly, I finished things off with a sentiment from Squeeze the Day Sentiments.
PRO TIP: If you scroll back up and look at the photo of the entire card, you can see that there's a nice open spot toward the top of the card. You might be tempted to plop your sentiment there! BUT, I chose to leave that "white space" as we call it, open! This gives a bit of relief to the overall design, gives the eye a place to rest, and keeps the card from being overly busy. By placing the sentiment in the open space on the lemon, it creates a nice focal point, while also leaving a little breathing room in the overall card design!
For the gift tag, I just punched a hole at the top of the lemon to run some twine through and voila! Gift Tag!
PRO TIP: You can make gift tags out of all sorts of your die cuts this way! And when making a card, just die cut an extra of whatever your focal element is, and use that for a coordinating gift tag! Even if it's not as large as this lemon, you can always take your die cuts and pop them on an actual die cut tag, and easily make a companion gift tag to go along with your card, without a lot of extra effort. The supplies are already out, so just die cut an extra while you're at it! :)
{Large Lemon card & tag set supplies -- click on thumbnails}
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I hope I've given you a bit of inspiration today, to create a little coordinating set of your own! Thanks so much for spending a bit of your day with me!
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