A friend of ours was hospitalized last week and fortunately he is doing well and back home today.
I made him a card and some snacks though he has to be careful what he eats and will require some diet modification in the next few weeks.
I started with a navy blue card and adhered a layer of naturals handmade paper to the front, added a colour printed image of a light house then a strip of hand decorated navy gift wrap. To finish off I added a little punchie greeting.
We must be grateful for every thing and all that is good!!
Therese
Monday, March 13, 2017
Reusing elements from handmade cards
In the stack of cards that were donated I found some handmade cards. They were not A2 sized so I chose to use the main elements as focal elements for my cards. For the first card I cut out this beautiful hand painted image of three rose buds. I had to cut them apart and recombine them with the leaves at the bottom so I watercoloured the space in between in green which tied them together quite nicely. I stitched this focal element to a pink rectangle then layered a piece of dark green below on which I mounted a laser printed greeting punchie which I sponged a bit around the edges. Layered this large element to a dark green card front.
For my second card, I trimmed the focal element from the card, added an embossed pink rectangle to the bottom and glued it to an orange card front. I glued a strip of yellow cardstock where they joined an then added a layered punchie greeting. The greeting is a digital by Bird's cards to which I added a font greeting, laser printed and watercoloured. I glued it to a white scallop punchie and thinking that it needed a bit of something else - I pierced the scallops! That was better. I adhered it to my card using 3D foam tape.
For my third card, I reused this beautiful tulip element. I tore the bottom section and left a gap when I glued the elements to a green card front. I tied some white fiber in the gap. I stamped and gold embossed the greeting (SU), punched it out (SU) and layered it onto a gold scalloped oval(SU) which I adhered over the fiber using 3D foam tape.
Easter is coming up and it is nice to have a few cards ahead.
Therese
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