Wanting to stretch my creative muscles I investigated starburst cards on line and found a tutorial that gave basic instructions so I headed to my craft room and got started. I cut quite a few different but coordinating paper scraps into triangles. I used a piece of scrap paper as my substrate and adhered the triangles into place radiating from the lower left hand corner. It is deceiving how long some of these had to be so they would go to the opposite corner so I had to cut yet a few more scraps into triangles to get some that would cover to the edges. I did eventually have enough triangles to cover my scrap paper in an arrangement I liked. I added real stitching to one of them using white thread in my sewing machine and added faux stitching to the other one using my pattern tracing wheel. After trimming these two to size I cut yellow cards to fit in my envelopes and mounted my backgrounds to them. I printed several Kawaii images of plants (Craftstarter), trimmed them to size and then cut them out with circle Nestibitilities. I watercoloured them to coordinate with my backgrounds then layered them onto green circles. I adhered them to my cards and trimmed them to the edges to finish off my cards. I have a little collection of paper triangles on my desk which will be used to create backgrounds for future cards but I anticipate they will not be starburst ones. I related this experience to my sister and she indicated a similar experience which motivated her to by the starburst die which cuts them perfectly every time!! No guessing!! These are for my Card Exchange partners for January and I will be sending them on their way this week! Therese
