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This week’s Global Design Project is a fun card sketch, which you can see below. For my ultra simple design, I didn’t even use the Stampin’ Cut & Emboss Machine, a departure from my normal cards. All of the cuts were made with my Paper Trimmer.

Beautiful Gallery Roses

I chose the pretty roses from Beautiful Gallery Designer Paper to cut in three sections, 3 3/4″ X 1 1/4″. Then, I glued the sections to Secret Sea cardstock, 3 7/8″ X 4 1/16″. This was glued to a Cloud Cover card base, 8 1/2″ X 5 1/2″, folded at 4 1/4″.

By the way, I use my Paper Trimmer on every single card, because it’s how I begin with my card base. When I say 8 1/2″ X 5 1/2″, folded at 4 1/4″, I’ve used my Paper Trimmer to cut the cardstock, and score at 4 1/4″, before folding. This score line gives a nice, exact, fold.

The sentiment, “with sympathy,” is from the carry-over, Unbounded Love Stamp Set. I stamped it in Secret Sea Ink on Cloud Cover Cardstock, 1 3/4″ X 7/8″, backed it with Secret Sea Cardstock, 1 7/8″ X 1″, and attached it with Dimensionals. The last detail was adding three of the beautiful, new, 2025-2027 In Color Flat Pearls. They are so pretty in Cloud Cover!

Now it’s your turn to have fun with this week’s card sketch! Be sure to tag your creation with #gdp498, when you share it with social media, so we can find you.

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