Hi friends. Another good rainy day to you:)
The following are some of my cards that I made at the beginning of my card making journey. I still do make some cards like this when I have the time. The card stock and patterned paper are all from Recollections as well as the smaller paper roses. The larger roses are from Dollarama. Those roses had to be cut down to half because otherwise they would be too tall. All of the flowers are attached using a hot glue gun. TIP: If you are attaching anything with hot glue especially on paper, it is good to adhere that paper to card stock and then to the card base so that the hot glue does not show through on the inside of the card. Any ribbon or lace or embellishments attached to the cards were from my stash.
While I love Stampin' Up's Designer Series Paper(DSP) there are times that I want to use some of my paper from other places. I don't think that this is bad because sometimes Stampin' Up just does not have the paper you want. I do love the fact the the DSP and card stock all match however. It saves sooo many headaches when you are trying to match colours.
I'll show some today and some tomorrow.
This is a 5 7/8" across by 5 3/4" long card. For some definition I took an ink pad and just swiped it along the patterned paper edge and also the matting. I used rose ribbon behind the green lace. On the inside I added a 1/4" X 5 3/4" strip of the patterned paper for continuity.
I can't remember the dimensions of this card as I gave it to my mother-in-law for Mother's Day. She is a very special lady. She is my kids' Oma and I still consider her my mother-in-law. The frame for the flowers is some patterned green paper that I cut with my Cricut but you could definitely use a die. To hide where the flowers all come together, I attached a bow. It was a success. She loved it.
This last card is 4 1/4" X 5 1/4". This was actually a hair clip from Dollarama that I took the metal backing off. So simple! I decided that it looked pretty plain so once again I took an ink pad and went around the edges. I slipped up in a couple of places and got some of the ink on the front of the card. You know what the say in card making - an accident is just an excuse for an embellishment! In this case it was an excuse to lightly drag the ink pad over the card stock in some places and it ended up looking so much better! I rounded the bottom edges with a corner punch and put a 1/2" of coordinating coloured daisy card stock down the left side of the inside of the card.
Well, that's it for today. I'll have some more to show you tomorrow.
Happy Card Making!
