January Card Club - cute square images layered onto embossed layers with a ribbon and tag brad

 For our last card we made up these cute cards!!!  The images are all from Cre8tive Hands.  We adhered our backgrounds to our card fronts and then created our focal elements.  We first coloured our square images and I added a paper pierced line on all four sides of mine with a pattern tracing wheel.  Next, we embossed our layers, border punched one edge, added our image and then added our ribbon and tag brad.  We added this large layer to our cards using 3D foam tape.  We could have made landscape cards by simply rotating our image and tag brad 90 degrees.   Will give that a try next time as I have a few extra card kits to make up.  It was great to visit and share while we were creating cards!!  Always good!!

Therese

January Card Club - Card #2 - a little arch filled with fun images

 For our second card we worked with a little framed opening in our top most layer.  These were created by cutting a tag out of a 3.5" x 4.24" layer.  I had to position carefully as there were two tags on the die (SX) and I only wanted to cut the one.  We embossed our layer and then tied on our fiber/ribbon.  We then adhered our backgrounds to the card fronts and then our embossed layer over that.  Next, I had prepared a variety of focal elements different for each card.  These ones have a glittered yellow balloon with a string and a serendipty dragonfly with a bit of embossing on it.  I could have reversed the frame layer on my second card but forgot.  Would have been just a bit of variation.  Therese

January Card Club - Card #1 - a little birdie with a funky tail and a hot glue seal

 It was great to be back making cards after a busy Christmas and a cold snap with temperatures in the -35C to -45C!!  It has warmed up and we are now dealing with water running everywhere!!  It was a small crowd for cardmaking but it always a good time when you are with friends and being creative.  We started with making these fun bird cards.  The birds are 2.5" circle (Nestibilities) cut from decorative paper.  If it was not double sided I simply watercoloured the back to give the bird a bit of depth.  The circle is folded just short of half to allow the back to create a bit of a belly.  We added our fiber tails and then the beak before gluing our birds onto our backgrounds.  Next, we added the eye - 1/4" circle punchie - which we glued in place and then added the highlight with a white gel marker.  The legs were added next using a fine tip black Sharpie marker giving them a few toes.  Then we created our hot glue seals for our ribbon.  We placed a little 1/4" nub of hot glue stick on a piece of cardstock then onto a foil covered corrugated cardboard.  

Do Not use a heat gun right onto your counter!!!!!!!!

We held our paper in place with a long skewer while we heated the hot glue with the heat gun.  Takes less than a minute for it to melt into a small puddle of glue.  We placed decorative buttons which were coated with embossing ink into the puddle and let them cool off.  Once they are cool you can simply remove the button and see the impression in the hot glue.  Very cool!!!  

We added our ribbons across the decorative paper, added our second one by just crossing them and then added our seals.  We stripped the paper off the back of the seals and then use a dab of hot glue to secure them over our ribbons.  Birdie cards are useful for many occasions with the quote " A little birdie told me...".  These fun cards to make!!!  Therese