Magnolia & Blooms Hinge Card

This card took me a few attempts as I hadn't made a hinge card using partial die cutting before. I saw a similar card on the Altenew website using a different Craft-Your-Life set and decided I wanted to try recreating the hinge on the side using one of the sets I already own. I looked through my Craft-Your-Life sets and decided Magnolia & Blooms would work well for this style of card. The first time I tried to die cut the "hinge" part of the card, I struggled with how best to line up the die to cut the hinge without cutting through the side of the card. After a couple test cuts, I decided this placement left enough of the card intact for the hinge but still die cut most of the image. 

After creating the base with the hinge, I then die cut a second piece using the same Magnoia & Blooms die and used the Altenew sticky mat to hold the die cut in place while I stenciled it using the coordinating stencils that come in the set. I then adhered the die cut over the hinge of the base card.

For the inside of the card, I stamped the Magnolia & Blooms stamp on purple card stock using purple ink for a tone-on-tone look after trimming the piece to fit inside the card. Then I stamped the "thanks" in the center and added some white and purple pearls to the flower centers and the bottom left of the card. 

A look at the hinge:

Close ups:

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