Beautiful Gallery Floral Book Binding Card

Unfortunately, I needed to make more sympathy cards this week. My sweet uncle passed away a few weeks ago, and we headed to the memorial service to celebrate his life with my cousins and family. He was a precious, precious man!! I will miss that smile and laugh!

I immediately thought of pulling out the new Beautiful Gallery Designer Series Paper (DSP) pack for these cards, because it’s a new pack that I hadn’t created with yet. It has so many beautiful paintings, sketches, and scenery in it, I thought it would be perfect. And it was!

This book binding style of card is a fun layout, because it makes the card “different,” yet it’s really not hard at all. PLEASE CLICK HERE to watch the video where I made this card. I really think you’ll like it.

I started off with a card base made from the new In Color, Cloud Cover. It is a gorgeous, VERY light blue color. It is almost grey. I love it!! This is a piece of 5-1/2″ x 8-1/2″, scored at 3-1/4″ and 4-1/4″. You’ll fold the card in half, and then fold it back on the other score line to create the “book binding” portion of the card (please see video).

The book binding portion was glued closed using Liquid Glue (my favorite!), but you could also use Tear & Tape adhesive here. On the card front, I used a piece of the gorgeous DSP for the binding portion. This piece measures 7/8″ x 5-3/8″. Then, on the larger portion of the card front, I layered a piece of Secret Sky cardstock, measuring 3-1/8″ x 5-3/8″ . Finally, I used that gorgeous floral print for the main portion of the card. That piece measured 3″ x 5-1/4″.

Have you grabbed the Everyday Arches die set yet?? They are amazing, and SO versatile! I used the smallest die from that die set for my sentiment, die cut out of Secret Sea cardstock. I heat embossed the sentiment onto it, stamping the sentiment from the Thankful Garden stamp set using Versamark ink. Then I sprinkled on the white WOW embossing powder, and heated it using my Heat Tool. I layered this sentiment onto the card front using Stampin’ Dimensionals.

I tied the gorgeous, sheer ribbon around the book binding portion of the card, and the silver added the perfect, glamorous touch to this card. The Sparkle Gems finished it off perfectly, because the silver in the gems matched the silver in the ribbon. It looked way more gorgeous in person than it does in this photograph!

I hope you love this card. This one definitely came from my heart, and I LOVE how it turned out. The new Cloud Cover goes so beautifully with the new Secret Sea, I think I’ll be using this color combination a LOT in the future!

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