Monopoly Board Game Card

This was a design by Catherine Cohen that I really enjoyed recreating, with a few of my own twists. Her original card can be seen here: https://crafticat.art/2024/07/01/monopoly-with-lawn-fawn/

The base of the card was cut with the largest of the Large Stitched Square Stackables and then the base of the game board was cut with the largest of the Outside In Stitched Square Stackables.

For the individual spaces on the game board, the 4 square pieces on the corners were made with the inside/leftover piece of the smallest square from the Stitched Square Frames. And the rectangular pieces were made with the inside/leftover piece of the smallest rectangle from the Stitched Rectangle Frames, which was then also cut in half.

Catherine stamped and then die cut her images, and she did a great job recreating the look of the old-timey car on the original game board. I wanted everything on my card to be a single layer except for the mouse and the money in the middle, so I stamped directly onto the game board pieces instead of die cutting them. I used an image of a more modern car from “Happy Village” for the free parking space and I really like how perfectly it fits into the square. She used a pointing hand image from one of the planner sets that I don’t have for the “Go to jail” space, so I used a thumbs up image from “# awesome” instead and I think it works just as well. I also used a few different phrases around the board, a different alphabet set for the word “Go”, and I added some sparkle to my coins just for fun. 😊

I think the hardest part of making this card was masking off the rectangle pieces at the same spot on all of them so that the inked colors would match and look even, but even that turned out pretty perfectly on the first try so it wasn’t that difficult. I did color around the jail cell with a copic marker that kind of bled over the masking tape and I had to try and fix it and it got a little wonky, so next time I would just color it myself without tape to make the straight lines and I think it would be fine.

There were a lot of steps to this card but as soon as I was done making it I wanted to make another. It’s such a versatile style of card that could be good for many different people. I’m sure it won’t be too long before I create this card again!

Materials used:

• Large Stitched Square Stackables
• Pint Sized Patterns Summertime petite paper pack
• Outside In Stitched Square Stackables
• Stitched Square Frames (inside of the smallest square)
• Stitched Rectangle Frames (inside of the smallest rectangle, cut in half)
• Holiday Helpers (train)
• Quinn’s 123s (question mark)
• Violet’s ABC’s (“Go”)
• Woodgrain Backdrop (arrow)
• Distress oxide ink: Barn Door (for the arrow)
• Let’s BBQ (spatula, for the jail bars)
• # awesome (thumbs up hand)
• Happy Village (car)
• You Autumn Know (mouse)
• Bicycle Built For You (hat)
• Charge Me Up (bow tie)
• How You Bean Money Add On
• Stickles Stardust

Here are the distress oxide ink colors I used for all the spaces around the board:

• Purple: Seedless Preserves
• Light blue: Tumbled Glass
• Pink: Picked Raspberry
• Orange: Spiced Marmalade
• Red: Festive Berries
• Yellow: Squeezed Lemonade
• Green: Mowed Lawn
• Dark blue: Salty Ocean

I also used Tumbled Glass very lightly in the background of the center of the game board to give it a little color.

Here are the sets I used for all the little phrases around the board:

• Happy bday: Pool Party
• You are priceless: How You Bean Money Add On
• Make a wish: Birthday Mice
• Don’t ever change: How You Bean Money Add On
• Cheers to you: Summer Friends
• Stay cool: Pool Party
• Cha-ching: How You Bean Money Add On
• Treat yourself: Treat Cart