Hello! Today I’m sharing something a little different. This delightfully quirky card features the Block Print Sardines die set, and using vintage sardine tins as inspiration, I created something reminiscent of those brightly colored tins. These little guys look right at home nestled inside rounded rectangle frames with a couple of sentiment banners splayed across them. Stick around and I’ll walk you through my process for creating this card.
My first step for this project was to create the sardines. These little fish just spoke to me, and I knew I could create something fun and different with them. I chose a light blue cardstock for the heads and tails and added some shading to them with a darker blue ink color and a small bending brush. For their bodies, I started with white cardstock and ink-blended them with yellow and orange inks. Finally, I assembled the pieces and finished them up with a shiny black pearl for each eye.
My next step was to create the background. I wanted something that would mimic the look of a tin, so I used nesting rounded rectangle dies to die-cut royal blue and warm gray cardstock panels. I die-cut a larger rectangle from the royal blue cardstock and a smaller one from the warm gray and then layered the frames together. Then I attached the frames to an A2 royal blue cardstock panel with foam squares to give them some height and dimension.
With the background panel completed, I was able to nestle the sardines into the center area, securing them with glue. If you look at vintage sardine tins, there’s a lot of text, banners, and icons on them, so I chose two sentiment banners, stamped them with sentiments, and attached them to my card with more foam squares. The finishing touch was to add a hexagram starburst that I die-cut from chartreuse cardstock to each corner.
Thank you so much for reading about this quirky card I created using the Block Print Sardines die set. See you again soon!
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