Card Making: Key to Happiness

I have a stack of ICAD cards on my craft desk that I have zero purpose for. I looked them over and decided that they had real potential as cards. In due time I will be turning all of these into cards, but I start with this one that I recently turned into a card for a very dear friend of mine. This person incorporates joy in her being and I wanted to present her with a card that showed I appreciated this value in her.

I started the project on these index cards.

I used my Gelli Plate for the surface preparations.

I used Payne's Grey by Dala and dolloped the acrylic paint on the Gelli Plate.

I brayered the paint onto the plate.

I followed this with Daler Rowney Silver.

I brayered this as well.

I then found this embossing folder in my cake decorating stash.

I pressed the image onto the wet paint.

Pulling the embossing folder away, the image that was left on the plate looked like this.

I brayered an index card onto the plate.

This is the print I pulled away from the plate.

I made some hot glue embellishments in a silicone mold.

I coloured the embellishments with a Rolfes Metallic Marker.

I decided to use a quote from a book titled Put On Your Dancing Shoes.

I liked the image that went with the quote and decided to use this as well.

I cropped both elements using a scalpel and steel ruler.

I inked the edges using a VersaMagic inkpad.

I used 3D Squares to mount the elements to the card.

I cropped some black cardstock, left over from a previous project to mount the key on.

I inked the edges with a white Brilliance inkpad.

I used Tombow glue and double-sided tape to adhere these elements to the card.

My completed index card looked like this.

I then folded an A4 sheet of black cardboard in half to form a card.

I used double-sided tape to mount the index card to the card.

I also taped a note paper to the card, so that I could write a personal message on the inside of the card.

I used a Crystal Craft Ink Pad and a rubber stamp to stamp a sentiment onto the card.

I placed this in the top right corner of the card.

I then found a sheet of these butterfly stickers to embellish the card with.

I filled the empty spaces with the silver stickers.

The completed card.

You can watch a compilation video of the above steps on YouTube:
https://youtu.be/37O-TSKPKZM

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