My favourite Dad Slim Card

Hi everyone, 

It’s been a while since I shared any personal makes so today I am sharing a slimline masculine card ready for the coming Father’s Day on Sunday. Slimline cards are all the rage lately, there are many slimline layout dies on the market right now but I made mine without and with some partial die cutting involved. My slimline folds measures at 3 1/2  x 8 cm. 

TUTORIAL: 

I start with two panels out of a centura pearl card stock I picked out a shimmery green that resembles a duck egg colour and using my stitched rectangle die I did some partial die cutting, one panel at 8 cm and the 2nd panel at 3 cm. I then ink blend the smaller panel from the bottom up to create an ombré effect using some distress ink in chipped sapphire and faded jeans. I left the top part of the card plain as I wanted the colours to fade into the green. 

With the same ink colours and a bit of black soot I did some fine splattering all over the small panel to create some sort of haze. Once the panel is completely dried from the blending and splatters I stamped some cattails images at the bottom of the panel in black then clear embossed the images, I did not want a very dark impression and so only stamped the image once. 

I then die cut a solid hexagon out of a copper metallic card stock and then with my craft knife, manually cut out the centre to create a hexagon thin frame. I then die cut the dragonfly 4 times and stack the layers. 

Finishing off I matted the main panel onto some metallic copper card stock leaving 1/4 space all around and laid it onto the bigger panel with some foam tape and then onto the slim card base. I stamped and embossed the sentiment in black and added some clear sequins to complete the design. 

Thanks for visiting and I hope today’s card will inspire you to give the slimline card a go without needing slimline card dies. 

x Ali x

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