Buy the Shoes - Chic Boutique Collection Card Tutorial – Chloes Creative Cards

Hello Crafters,

Today's card tutorial is one for glamour-pusses and glitter magpies everywhere! Featuring the brand-new Chic Boutique collection, DT member extraordinaire Glynis has definitely come up trumps with this great design.

Read on for a full step-by-step project tutorial, complete with a materials list that has been linked so you can click on each product to be sent to its respective web page, making it easy for you to shop.

YOU WILL NEED:

Chic Boutique collection:
- Photopolymer stamp set – Fashionable Birthday
- Die and stamp set – Chic Shoes
- 5x7” 3D embossing folder – Lattice Background
- 8x8” embossing folder – Lace Background
- 8x8” paper pad – Chic Boutique
Nesting die set – Basic Hearts
5x7” 3D embossing folder, stamp and die set – Flower Bouquet
Designer printed vellum pad – Flower Ombré
Foiled acetate – Fabulous Foliage
Pearl card – Crystal White
Mirror card – Amethyst
Heat-resistant acetate
Sparklers – 10mm and 12mm
Bling Box – Beautiful Bouquets
Self-Adhesive Sparkles – Pretty Purples
WOW! clear embossing inkpad
WOW! embossing powder – Silver Dollar and Polished Silver Super Fine
Sparkelicious Glitter – Crystal Crush, Silver Crystal, and Pink Diamond Sparkle
Chisel-tip glue pen
Pinflair 3D glue gel
Art Glitter Dries-Clear PVA glue
8x8” white straight-edged card blank
WOW! heat tool
A4 die-cutting machine

INSTRUCTIONS:

1 Trim a sheet of Amethyst mirror card to 7¾” square and affix to the card base using foam pads. Trim a sheet of lilac paper from the Chic Boutique paper pad to 7½” square, edge with Crystal Crush Sparkelicious glitter and affix to the card front using foam pads. Trim Crystal White pearl card to 7⅛” square, emboss using the 8x8” Lace Background embossing folder, edge with Crystal Crush Sparkelicious glitter, and affix to the card front using foam pads. Trim Amethyst mirror card to 6¾” square and affix to the card front at an angle, as shown, using foam pads. Trim Crystal White pearl card to 6½” square, edge with Crystal Crush Sparkelicious glitter and affix to the card front using foam pads. Finally, trim a sheet of lilac paper from the Chic Boutique paper pad to 6¼” square, edge with Crystal Crush Sparkelicious glitter and affix to the card front using foam pads.

2 Die-cut a sheet of Amethyst mirror card using the fourth-largest die from the Basic Hearts die set, then affix to the card front, as shown, using foam pads. Die-cut a sheet of lilac patterned paper from the Chic Boutique paper pad using the fifth-largest die from the Basic Hearts die set. Edge with Crystal Crush Sparkelicious glitter and affix to the card front, as shown, using foam pads. Die-cut a sheet of Crystal White pearl card using the sixth-largest heart die from the same set, emboss using the 5x7” 3D embossing folder, edge with Crystal Crush Sparkelicious glitter and affix to the card front using foam pads.

3 Using the stamps from the Chic Shoes die and stamp set, stamp the shoes onto Amethyst mirror card using the clear embossing inkpad, cover with Polished Silver Super Fine embossing powder and heat set. Die-cut the shoes using the corresponding dies from the same set. Using the bow stamp from the same set, stamp the bow twice onto heat-resistant acetate using the clear embossing inkpad. Cover with Polished Silver Super Fine embossing powder and heat set. Using dries-clear adhesive, coat the reverse of the bows with Silver Crystal Sparkelicious glitter and set aside to dry. Cover the entire outer area of each shoe with Pink Diamond Sparkle Sparkelicious glitter and the heels with Silver Crystal Sparkelicious glitter using dries-clear adhesive. Affix the shoes to the top heart layer using glue gel. Add the bows to the back of each shoe using glue gel and add a Sparkler to the centre of each bow.

4 Die-cut three large and medium purple flowers from the Flower Ombré vellum pad. Emboss the flowers using the Flower Bouquet embossing folder. Add dots of dries-clear adhesive to the embossed details on each petal and cover with Pink Diamond Sparkle Sparkelicious glitter. Layer the flowers together using glue gel to give one large and one medium flower. Die-cut two pieces of Crystal White pearl card using the stamen die from the Flower Bouquet embossing folder, stamp and metal die set. Add Pretty Purples self-adhesive sparkles to the tips of the stamens and affix to the centre of each flower using glue gel. Add a 12mm Sparkler to the centre of the large flower and a 10mm sparkler to the medium flower using glue gel. Affix the flowers to the card front, as shown, using glue gel.

5 Fussy cut two leafy branches from the Fabulous Foliage foiled acetate pad. Affix to either side of the flowers using glue gel.

6 Stamp the sentiments onto Crystal White pearl card using a clear embossing inkpad. Cover with Polished Silver Super Fine embossing powder and heat set. Trim the card to fit and edge with Crystal Crush Sparkelicious glitter. Matt both sentiments onto panels of Amethyst mirror card and affix to the top-left and bottom-right of the card, as shown, using foam pads.

7 Add some Pretty Purples Self-Adhesive Sparkles to the heart and some Beautiful Bouquets Bling Box gems to the bottom-left corner to finish.