I think this is one of my favorite cards of the many I made with tangrams and foil cardstock for my newest video here. I had never heard of tangrams but discovered the concept watching a video by Deepti of the Crealies design team where she created a swan using the 7 pieces of Crealies Chinese Puzzle Die Set. All the cards I show in the new video also feature foil cardstock and I chose copper for the background and a rainbow foil for the tangram butterfly, all embossed together with an Altenew 3D embossing folder.
In a recent video I showed how to make 4 page bookbinding cards after learning how to from Sam of Mixed Up Crafts. Here is a link to that video if you want to learn how to put a book card together. I adjusted the sizes on this one to be a bit taller and wider because the tangrams were a little bigger than the pages on the one in the video would allow for. I also cut the side fold down to 1 inch to give me more room on the pages. This is a book card for a special young man and my first page has a rocket embossed with a Tim Holtz Sizzix embossing folder and the start of a question - WHERE?
WILL YOU GO? The sailboat was debossed with an Altenew die for great texture on the foil cardstock. And look what is in the pocket on the left page - all the letters of the alphabet can be created with the pieces of the Chinese puzzle into tangrams, and I put all the letters of the name of the special child in that pocket!
He can have fun and build something new or copy the letters or rockets and other shapes I put on the card with these colorful tangram pieces. I think he is going to love it!
I am entering the second card into the Lots of Layers challenge at Simon Says Stamp Wednesday.
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Fantastic card designs.
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