The card list is shrinking as people choose not to send and receive cards… but I keep making for those we don’t see and who aren’t into electronic messages.
Most are upcycled from last year’s received cards with the rest made with long held supplies. In this case cross stitch fabric. The goal is to use what I have!
Now to face up to the postage costs and get them off in the mail…
Being a crafter makes it hard to dispose of greetings cards received so I feel obliged to remake them and hand them on. I feel if I add embellishments and effort it isn’t cheating on the home made card making ‘rules’.
This one received for the Channel Islands liberation day (ending 5 years of occupation in WWII) won’t be handed on until next May 9 th but I enjoyed remaking it now.
Card front cut apart then mounted on a card base once the white brads were put in to the bunting line. Googly eyes stuck on and dots of Nuevo drops added to the flowers and a piece of embroidery thread tied around the spine.
A properly edited version this time… click to watch in You Tube
I must i must decrease the stockpile and here are 10 cards to make a start
i have already used the craftwork cards antiqued set and accessories quite a bit but these are very generous kits
Three cards on craft card blanks .
two use tags from the kit and one layered die cuts . I die cut the sentiment twice to make a drop shadow
Scan n cut put to use here here with the octagon layout and a free svg of some doodles for contrast
tip for next time, octagons don’t tessellate or mosaic togetherlike hexagons would, but here studding with the Candi worked out fine
And using up my die cut flowers …
ten simple cards done in one afternoon but there are still 21 untouched pages of paper in the kit. So much paper left to play with.
Back in love with individual card making…
I cut feather shapes on my scan n cut, mixing scraps from various paper collections focussing on green, brown and blue.
I dry embossed my panel of card at half inch intervals on a score board then stitched on the feathers in columns.
I used a neutral cotton and an old needle which is kept for paper stitching but didn’t need a special foot or stitch settings.
The panel was stuck on a base made from matching pearlised card and a few sequins adhered
Inside a lone feather was glued in place on a plain paper insert and outside a few dots of gold Stickles finished it off.
Men! They would rather a bottle of wine than a lovingly hand made gift and card toppers are so often fuddy fuddy that I nearly BOUGHT funny cards for the current group of male birthdays.
However tintin saved me… I found a downloadable cartoon which I tweaked with my Pages software and printed on photo paper. The right size for my card bases.
Then for each recipient a personalized caption was also printed on photo paper. The backing is some Tyre print effect paper so i feel comfortable that these are acceptable…
I have a new year resolution not to buy until the stash is reduced… plus a friend donates a pile of orphan envelopes and ribbon so I start making one off cards. I have tried to use new techniques, such as heat embossing on vellum – which is beautiful – and take the embellishments a step further as with the sequins stuck on glitter card
Whether it is to say a big thanks or a little one I like to make simple, happy cards and have a few ready for a variety of recipients
I found theses pennant sentiments printed on the back of a ‘pay per box’ carton when tidying my paper stash and couldn’t bear to waste anything, so four quick cards were created by fussy cutting around the pennants and using saved embellishments, craft card bases and docrafts backing papers.
I have glued white paper inserts inside to make the message easier to write and see.
aah, my new paper trimmer makes me happy. Every piece of paper used to make batches of cards more expertly than before. Using Docrafts craft collection paper I have made gift sets of mini cards.
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