Year of Cheer Washi Tape

Hello, Crafters.

Are
you a fan of washi tape?

I’m not, but I bought a set of the Year of
Cheer Washi Tape because I love the designs and colours! 

And all I’ve
done so far, is to sit and admire it!

Today I saw a card on Pinterest
where someone had used the widest design from the five rolls, and
decorated about three-quarters of a top layer of cardstock to make it
look like part of a sheet of Designer Series Paper – it looked gorgeous!

I was confident that if
I used my Grid Paper, this was something I could
do all over the top layer, and get good results i.e. I could get the lines straight!

I used some temporary
adhesive and adhered my top layer of Whisper White Cardstock (CS) to my
Grid Paper making sure it lined up perfectly horizontally and
vertically. 

Leaving the first half an inch clear, I adhered the
first strip so it lined up with the second half-inch on the Grid Paper. 

Oh, how I wish it was always this easy to get straight lines! LOL! 

I
worked my way down the top layer, and had exactly half an inch spare. 

Had I taken the trouble to work this out before I started, I would have known this would work out perfectly!

As
I was working with gold again, it was a great excuse to start on my
fourth packet of Gold Foil Snowflakes. 

I also decided to use the
co-ordinating Cheers to the Year Stamp Set to embellish the Snowflake. 

As I’m going through a gold and silver phase with my cards at the
moment, I decided to use one of the “circle” stamps as well as the word
JOY, and heat emboss them in gold. 

I die cut the circle using a Layering
Circle Framelits Die, and I die cut the word JOY using one of the
Layering Ovals Framelits Dies. 

I also die cut a scalloped oval in Gold
Foil using the Layered Oval Framelits Dies again, and adhered JOY onto
it. 

To build my card I
adhered a layer of Gold Foil to a Whisper White CS card base, and
adhered my washi tape layer onto the Gold Foil. 

Using Tombow, I adhered a
Foil Snowflake in the centre of the front of the card, and then I adhered the
gold heat-embossed circle in the centre of the snowflake.

Finally, I
added JOY in the centre using Dimensionals. 

To finish the front of my
card I added one large Basic Pearl to each end of word JOY to make it
look like a plaque nailed to a wall!

To
decorate inside the card, I took a layer of Whisper White CS and added
two strips of Washi Tape at the bottom, measuring it the same way I
had done for the front of the card. 

I wanted to add part of a Snowflake
in the bottom right-hand corner of this layer, but I knew from experience, depending on where I cut, I could have large chunks of the
snowflake dropping off! 

To prevent this from happening – hopefully! – I added some
Tombow to the back of what I guessed was about a quarter of the Foil Snowflake, and
then added it to the Whisper White CS layer. 

When I was happy it was centred correctly, I
cut the excess off – very carefully – so I could use the remaining
three quarters on other cards! 

Hubby’s going to his company’s Christmas dinner this evening, so it’ll be a late one in my studio for me today. Well, it’s only nice to wait up for him, isn’t it? LOL!

I think that’s it from me today. Until tomorrow, happy crafting.

JanB.