Lately, I've been feeling really guilty about neglecting my MDS followers...so this post is all of you. This a fun little hybrid card I did using the Word Play digital download. It makes a cute card and I think it would be great on a scrapbook page. Here is a quick step-by-step tutorial on how I did it.
One of the great things about this particular download is that you can add it as the whole image or you can paste it in as two seperate parts. For this project I used the two seperate pieces.
I changed the color of one part (Go confidently) to Early Espresso and the other part (Dreams) to Pacific Point. Then I aligned the two parts together.
Next I placed a square punch over the word "GO". It actually took two punches that I resized into rectangles. Then I changed the rectangles to whisper white to match the background.
I typed the word "GROW" in Real Red and resized to fit perfectly over top. (The font is "An Unfortunate Event".)
Next I used a circle punch to cover the "o" and changed it to Whisper White. (I had to resize the circle so that it only covered the "o". You could also just highlight the letter "o" and change it to whisper white and leave the other letters real red.
Finally, I added the large flower from the Play Date embellishments and resized it to fit in the space. Then I added the digital bird stamp from Cheep Talk, changed it to Pacific Point and resized it to fit on top of the arrow.
One thing to note is that you should try to start out with the size you want the finished product to be. If you don't, however, the new software update will allow you to group everything and resize it. Everything will resize except the word "Grow" because that is typed. But you can just highlight the word and change the size of the font...so it is not that bad.
Here's another look at the finished card. You can see that I added a more mustard brad to the center of the flower for some dimension. I created a square card base (4.25") with Pacific Point CS added a layer of Real Red CS and then layered on some Celebrations DSP. I tied on some Pear Pizzazz Stitched-poly Ribbon and a Real Red button tops everything off nicely.
I'll be seeing you again soon!
