Priscilla was the mother of one of my dearest friends and for many
years, she worked as Receptionist for a large cigar manufacturing and
distribution company. One of the perks
was permission to take home discontinued cigar boxes and label overruns which
her daughter Carol generously shared with me.
The sturdy boxes are great for storing and stacking tons of stamping
paraphernalia. But the cigar bands have
been at rest in a shoebox until I could figure out how best to use them . . .
Most of the bands have a large rounded design feature in the center of
the strip, so I couldn’t figure out how to put them together for a
background. But after doing some
sorting, I found plenty of straight edged strips I could use between those with
larger seals in the centers.
Then I cut a piece of double-sided sticky tape sized to use on a
Slimline card, peeled the release paper off one side, and started sticking down
the labels. I purposely left some random
spaces with the sticky tape showing.
Then I dusted everything with Gilding Flakes which I burnished for good
adherence and then brushed off the excess.
The remaining release paper was pulled off the back and the layer was
added to a Slimline card base.
The words “Palma Arbor” are Latin for “Palm Tree”. At least, that's what Google says. Black seemed the best choice as a backing for
the opulent art work on the labels, so I went with that.
My next post will feature an A2 card with cigar labels chosen to fit an
elegant color theme of black, white, and gold, so stay tuned!
Cardstock: Bazzill Raven, Cigar
Labels, Hanko Echizen Gold
Dies: Spellbinders Layered
Palm Tree, DieVersions font
Noodles
Doo Dads: Nuvo Gilding
Flakes: Gold, Gelly Roll Clear Star pen
Clear
