Hello crafty friends – I’m back with a second post today thanks to Christmas (or not) BINGO and our new grid that runs until 15th April. This is another of the demos that I showcased on the 2pm Clarity Social TV show yesterday, with the ‘thank you framer‘ A5 stamp set. My design for this one picks up Column N with CAS style, scored lines & a focal sentiment – I was inspired for the layout by a card I saw Karen Ksenzakovic share on her blog a short while ago and Clarity’s designer paper is perfect for Love Those Pretty Papers challenge.

I started with a 5×5 card blank in a tent fold oientation (ie the fold at the top) and embossed a frame onto it with a square embedder before stamping the ‘thank you framer’ image into the centre. I used Versafine Clair ink for this as it’s a bit juicier thank Archival, although you do need to then give it a bit longer to dry thoroughly.

I cut a 5×7 piece of stencil card together with another from the Antarctica designer paper and stamped the word into the centre of the paper, so I could fussy cut the centre of the O for my card front. If you saw the show yesterday, you’ll have seen that I worked out a more efficient proces for this, as I also die cut a frame from the same piece using two square nested dies (on this first run, I cut the frame from a separate piece of the Antarctica paper). I stamped the cat, bird and little flourish from the framer set onto the O of paper and could then glue it into place on the card front – I also glued the reminaing designer paper piece onto the stencil card for the backing plate.

I then simply glued the die cut frame onto the front of the card, surrounding the embedder square then attached the card blank to the backing plate.

Here’s a quick view at how it look inside – I added a couple of the little flourishes in the corners as a finishing touch

We’ve been talking a lot about ‘mini makes’ in the Clarity community since the new year, but sometimes you want a card that looks a bit more special and this is a great way to turn a small card into a larger one without having to do a big design! So I’m now interested to see what you’ll pick from our Christmas (or not) BINGO card to include on yours – remember to just select one column and add at least 3 of the 5 elements to your card.