Friday, January 1, 2010

Dahlia Flower




When design team member Courtney described her card for the latest Everything but the Kitchen Sink Challenge to use wrapping paper, she mentioned that this medium would be excellent to fold. That got me thinking to make a Dahlia Flower, as I have been wanting to try this technique out before. I found some double sided wrapping paper from Christmas and followed the tutorial here. I look forward to making some more cards with this wrapping paper as my own challenge to see if I can create different looks with the same product. For this card I wanted to keep the design clean and simple with just enough added interest to compliment the flower rather than distract (I hope).

Here's the Goods: Wrapping Paper, SU Very Vanilla Cardstock, CM Circle Punch, Colorbox Chalk Ink in Creamy Brown, Inkadinkadoo Happy Days Stamp Set, Scallop Border Punch, SU Build a Brad.

12 comments:

  1. This is gorgeous. What a great idea to use the double-sided gift wrap on the dahlia fold. I love your take on the challenge.

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  2. What a great idea! Card is very classic looking.Bet you are the first person to be thinking Mother's Day. TFS!

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  3. What a neat flower your created!
    Brandi

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  4. Your wrapping paper made a gorgeous flower and wonderful card.

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  5. Takes lots of time to make a dahlia... nice job, and wrapping paper is a great medium for this, much better than cardstock or even patterned paper.

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  6. Oh Karen I LOVE LOVE LOVE this! It's beautiful. So glad you found some inspiration in my post!

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  7. So pretty! I love the flower! Thanks for playing with us in the challenge! :)

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  8. Lovely job on the folding. A very beautiful mother's day card.

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  9. this is gorgeous!! I have a sample of how to fold one of these, but never got around to it!! Thanks for inspiring!!

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  10. SO pretty! I love the dahlia fold and don't use it often enough! Thanks for playing along with us Kitchen Sink girls!

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  11. Gorgeous card Karen!! Thanks so much for playing along with our challenge!

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  12. Just stunning!! Thanks for playing along with ebtks!

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