I started on a set of cards for a friend as she has donated some small envelopes to my cardmaking stash. I made a few cards for her last year. You can check them out here, here, and here. She generally needs thank you cards and this year I thought I would allow myself a bit more freedom and we shall see what I end up creating.
I have mined my stash for supplies to use and found a box of paper which I had almost forgotten about. It has a wide variety of single pieces of beautiful paper which I received in a swap a while back. The paper I used on these two cards is one of those pieces!!
For the card on the left I started with a dark pink card and added a piece of paper which covered the front leaving a small border all the way around. In my greetings stash I found several of these laser printed font greetings which I had printed a while back for my Christmas thank you cards. They coordinated very nicely so I used my pattern tracing wheel and added a line of piercing on the top and bottom edges. Next, I flagged both ends and mounted the greeting to the front using 3D foam tape.
For the one on the right, I used the scrap that I trimmed off and ripped it in two and mounted the pieces top and bottom on a medium pink card front. I added wavy lines of piercings with my tracing wheel and then used my distress tool on both top and bottom edges. I added two square gold brads which coordinate with the gold in the paper - one on each side and mounted this greeting to the front of my card between the pieces of decorative paper using double sided tape. Love how they turned out!!!
I will be dipping into my stash of beautiful papers for these cards!! Beautiful papers make beautiful cards!! Therese