October Leading Lady, Keren Baker | Take Three

Our October Leading Lady, Keren Baker is back for her triumphant third performance!  If you missed her smashing debut you must see it...CLICK HERE or her delightful and innovative second performance showcasing cut files CLICK HERE.  Today, Keren has a real treat for us as she makes things really pop and be noticed!

Ladies and gentlemen, Keren Baker....

Thanks for having me again! It's exciting being back.

This week; a trio of 3D cards.

I love taking a 2D card blank and making something that stands out a little 😉

This card is using the Winter Woodland set ( I'm sorry, I just can't put it down!).

I've done a simple boxed card- using two side accordion folds and slotting the inserts inside.

  

For the individual parts, I've taken advantage of each part of the frames in the Essentials: Audrey Cutaways die set. 

Rather than separate them, I've added an extra layer behind to keep all the frame parts together.
I love that the tree is a solid image- I've purposely not inked it evenly as this gives more texture to the forest.

 

The deers are simply stamped with a glue and gold flakes added over them. They make an elegant wintery scene that could easily be a Christmas decoration ( if we were even thinking about that yet 😉).

Next card..well it's only slightly 3D! 

 

I love the jewels in 'My Precious' and wanted to make a feature of just one. I simply stamped the jewel twice on some acetate. I then added some stitching holes with a pricking tool and sewed around the edges. Once nearly sewn, I left a slight gap, pushed some glitter into it and sewed up the gap.

Simple. A sparkly jewel- set off by the stark black backdrop. I wanted to take it beyond the card to give it a 3D look & created a ring using circle dies and then added gold metal flakes to it.

For my final project, I wanted to use another useful 3D supply staple; acetate. You can make all sorts of elements that jump off the page with this delightfully clear product.

I used the beautiful In Bloom: Addie's Garden along with the foliage from the set: In Bloom: Lola's Bouquet with Joni Andaya and the sentiment set The Big, The Bold & You.

Once I'd stamped and coloured the bloom in with Copic markers, I stamped out the little flowers and foliage and added them to small thin strips of acetate. Then, make little slits in the flowers and feed the strips into them. Secure them onto the reverse of the flower. Bend and fold the acetate until you have a great arrangement. Add them onto a card base and a mat created from one of the frame dies in the Essentials: Audrey Cutaways.
 

If you look carefully at the photo, maybe you can see the strips. Because the acetate has bends created, it will flatten down to post too!

Hope you've enjoyed some ideas to add dimension to your crafting. Next week (which I can hardly believe will be my last (sob sob)), I'm going to ...well you'll have to wait and see!

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See you all next Saturday xx 

In Bloom: Addie's Garden

In Bloom: Lola's Bouquet with Joni Andaya

My Precious

The Big, the Bold and You

Winter Woodland

Essentials: Audrey Cutaways

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