Dangly Wooden Ornament Tent Card - Merry Monday #134

This week's challenge at Merry Monday is to create a card with ornaments in silver/grey and blue - what a fab challenge and such a pretty photo!  My new favourite thing at the moment is wooden shapes.  A while ago I bought a pack of PaperMania Create Christmas 'Words' wood shapes - there are ten shapes in the pack and one is an ornament.  All the shapes in the pack have holes - to me that means they're crying out to be dangled in an apertured tent card - so that's what I made!

 

First I coloured the wooden ornament using a blue Sharpie pen and Brushed Pewter Distress Paint for the hanger part of the shape and I set that aside to dry.  I glued the patterned paper panel to the front of a 5 1/4" square cream card base, cut out the circle aperture and cut a Very Vanilla CS circle frame to go around the aperture.  I glued a panel of polka dot embossed Very Vanilla CS inside the card so it shows through the aperture.  I stamped the sentiment and heat embossed it with silver embossing powder, die cut the label shape and attached the label to the card using silver brads.  I punched a 1 3/4" circle of Silver Glimmer Paper, glued that to the back of the ornament and added rhinestone gems to the centre of the ornament.  I punched a hole above the aperture, suspended the ornament using silver cord and I covered the hole with a silver snowflake shaped brad.  I added three Very Vanilla punched snowflakes and placed a rhinestone gem in the centre of each one.

Here's a close up view of the dangly ornament.

I love suspending elements so that they dangle freely within an aperture cut into a tent card - what I don't love is that tent cards have a tendency to collapse while on display.  To ensure my tent cards stay up I always add a connecting piece of CS cut and scored into a W shape.  This photo shows the card at a different angle so you can see the W shaped CS connecting piece.

I always write my message on the back when I've made a dangly tent card.  Here's the back of the card with a silver heat embossed sentiment and a strip of patterned paper.  I added a line drawn with a metallic silver Sharpie pen above the paper strip.  I covered the flap of the envelope with patterned paper to complete the card.

Supplies:
Stamps: SU! 'Joyful Christmas' set, Hero Arts 'Holiday Cheer' clear set
CS: PaperMania square cream card blank, SU! Very Vanilla & Silver Glimmer Paper
Patterned paper: Bo Bunny Snow Day 'Flurries'
Ink: Encore Metallic Silver pigment ink, blue Sharpie pen, metallic silver Sharpie pen
Tools: Circle Nestabilities dies, Spellbinder's 'Grommet Tags' die, Cuttlebug 5" x 7" 'Polka Dots' embossing folder, snowflake punches, circle punches, heat tool, paper piercer
Embellishments & accessories: PaperMania Create Christmas Wooden Shapes 'Words' pack, Brushed Pewter Distress Paint, silver embossing powder, rhinestone gems, silver brads, snowflake shaped brad, silver cord