Bon Voyage

[maureenmcn]

Card for a friend who at age 45 has decided to quit her job and home (divorced and children flown the nest) and travel the world before it's too late. Go girl!

A5 Landscape card, patterned paper, embossed label, decoupaged topper created from free colouring page, flower created with Accent Essential Cart and distress ink, leaves svg curtesy of this forum.

Have made a sample rose (susanbluerobot) and leaves (single leaf I think from HeatherM which I copied, pasted and union) to go with the card but not quite sure where I am taking the idea yet, possibly a posy or bouquet. Any suggestions welcome.

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[gj1]

This is INCREDIBLE! SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO Gorgeous!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[scrappindeb]

Very, very nice and also sweet of you!

[TheresaTT]

love that card. now for the ? . how do people put these dimensional cards in an envelope? what do they use? i always want to make some of what i see but wonder about the envelope

[maureenmcn]

Theresa

Luckily this card and hopefully the roses can be given by hand so I made a box for the card. The box can also be used for posting if the material used is strong enough. In the UK postage on anything above a certain thickness is quite high so if I can get away with using an ordinary good quality envelope or 'Jiffy' bag I just enclose a note telling the recipient how to coax the petals etc back into shape. I have attached an svg for a box suitable for a UK A5 card - finished size of box 21 x 16 x 3 cms approx.

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[maureenmcn]

Oops!

Just noticed that only the box base is showing on the SVG attachment. You can make the top by just increasing the size by a few mm. I will endeavour to post the complete svg asap.

[ncborn]

Both are just Beautiful and I know your friend is going to love them.

[sstehman]

Love the flower....another technique to put on my list of things to learn.

[maureenmcn]

Thank you all for the lovely comments.

Have posted a photo of my roses made into a posy on the Project Gallery under Miscellaneous.

[maureenmcn]

Have updated the svg file for the A5 box. Should be on two pages. Page one is base and Page two is top.