Punch and Dies Tutorial plus Card

 Today I am going to try and answer questions some of you have had about some of the products I use from Joan's Gardens.  Below is a detailed tutorial on how I created this card, which actually shows products used.  I love it when I know you are reading my blog and creating cards from things I try to teach you here on my blog.   One of the cards I have had a lot of questions about is the "Remember" card with the lilies.  I did not go into a lot of detail when posted because I made it at the last minute before leaving town.  So here is, hopefully, the information you wanted about that card plus info on other products you see me using from Joan's Gardens that some of you have had questions about.

 To create this card, start with a 5.5" square card.  Cut another piece of card stock 6" square. Pictured here is the 5.5" card placed on top of the 6" square.

 To create the pretty punched border on the card, use the 6" square piece of card stock and the Martha Stewart "Doulbe Arches" border and corner punches. There has been some confusion about which punch I used, but the name of this punch is "DOULBE" Arches which is one of the largest sized Martha Stewart Border punches.  I really love to use this punch when I want an elegant or lacy looking card.

 Start by punching each of the corners.

 Line one of the corners up on the punch (just like you do for the smaller punches) and punch the border.  You will have to punch this twice - first line it up with the left corner and punch, then move it up to line up the right corner and punch again.  That completes one side.

 This picture shows the completed punched piece of card stock to be used on the front of your card.

 Attach the punched border piece to the front of the card.  I usually just add ProGlider adhesive around the solid portion of this piece and attach it to the front.

 I  wanted to add a rose to this card, so I thought a lattice would be pretty in the background.   Joan's Gardens has these beautiful lattice dies that save you a lot of time when trying to create your own lattice.  This is a picture of how the lattice looks after you die cut it.

 

This lattice is too large to fit into the center of this punched border on the front of my card.  Remember, you can always do lots of things with your dies, so I cut it down to fit into the center.  The outside edges were cut off, then I cut narrow strips of card stock to place back on to make the lattice look more finished - no raw edges.  You can see that on the card.

For greenery around my rose, I used some more new products from Joan's Gardens.  Pictured above are the Cheery Lynn Pair of Ferns.  These are really nice because you get two ferns in the pakage, both facing opposite directions.

 Joan's Gardens now has a lot of the beautiful Marianne Design Creatables Dies.  This is the leafy vine I used.  The die cut fine is on the right.

 This package of Marianne Creatables has two different dies in it.  I have die cut both of them and placed them beside the package of dies. For this card I only used the die on the left.  There are two of these behind the rose.

 

I better not leave out how I created the rose.  I used all three sizes of the " Pear" Punch.  The rose leaves were created with some of the leaves from the "Mega Giant  Dahlia Petals" punch. Isn't it nice how once you get all these punches, you can use them for so many different things.  I have made many different flowers with this punch and now find I can use it for many different size leaves. 

EDIT:  Tutorial for creating the rose is posted June 4 - (Next post)

Well I hope this tutorial is a help. I hope you will leave me a comment below to let me know if you like this type of tutorial where I actually show the products along with all the information about creating the card.

All the products above are sold at Joan's Gardens.