January Card Club - Card #1 - a cute card with a "Stack and Whack" collage background and a fussy cut focal element

 So great to see my friends again!!!  I truly love spending time with them creating cards and sharing the goings on of our lives.  

I have used this technique a few before but many years ago so I decided to revisit it.  You layer several backgrounds on top of each other - I used three - and then cut them apart with several cuts - I used three.  This leaves you with pieces that perfectly create a collage background without fussing!!  It is a bit of a puzzle when it comes to gluing the pieces to a card front but with a bit of twist and turning they fall into place.  I glued the first one with the edges of my pieces touching and on the second one I left a bit of a gap between them.  I like them both!!  I added faux stitching with a fine tipped marker in a coordinating colour.  The little bird was laser printed, fussy cut and the watercoloured before adhering it to the front of my card using 3D foam tape.  The heart was colour printed, die cut with Nestibilities and layered onto a green circle before being added to my card front.  These sketch can very easily be used in either a portrait or landscape layout.  Therese