Design Team member Kate is back with another card that uses basic shaped dies (think: square, circle, heart, etc.) and solid colored cardstock. Use this card template and these basic supplies to make a stack of pretty handmade cards.
How to Make a Color Block Card
Kate started out by choosing a dark and a light shade of 4 colors (8 sheets total) from the Encore Textured Cardstock pack. Encore Cardstock is perfect for this project because there are lots of shades of each color family.
Using the square dies, she cut a 2 1/2 inch square from all 8 colors. You can obviously cut your squares on a paper trimmer, but Kate used a square die because she wanted to make sure each square was exactly straight to ensure that the sides lined up correctly.
COLOR BLOCK CARD TEMPLATE BONUS IDEAS
- The darker panel that remains after cutting the heart out can be made into another card by adding a heart in the center like the sending good vibes card below. You could also use it to make a shaker card.
- Instead of mounting the darker heart ON TOP of the lighter heart, you could instead cut hearts from both the darker and lighter panels and then switch them and inset them into the cutout as an inlay with the lighter heart inside the darker squares and vice versa (similar to this Glitter Inlay Card).
Supplies:
- Encore Textured Cardstock in Capri Cove, Swimming Pool, Lapis, Blue Sky, Hot Pink, Snappy Pink, Dutch Iris, Larkspur
- Square and heart dies from Hero Arts
- Sentiment Strips and sentiment stamps from Taylored Expressions
-Kate
Here's another fun handmade card idea using basic shaped dies!
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Sarah – The sentiments are stamps and dies from Taylored Expressions.
Love these ideas! However, I don’t know how you created the messages for your cards. Can you please share that?
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