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Stitched with gold thread, this clover did not show up well on the green card. So I did a little coloring with colored pencils and cut an aperture in the folded cardstock base to frame it. The bow element is added just because it matches.
This is NOT my favorite card. I think it looks a little juvenile. But what's done is done.
Ddd
More faux stitching with pens and in rub-ons. I started with another sheet of the printed collage squares. With these half the work is already done. And there is not a lot of bulk so they mail nicely, too.
I added more stitching in the text to make words that would connect the two cardstock stickers.
Ddd
These bears are printed on parchment and I glued them to cream colored stock so I could stack them to make them 'go' together.
The scallop should look familiar - from the marquee cards - and I had the text block in a box of die-cuts. Just added some matching cardstock and pen doodles to pull it all together.
The purple band on the right is really the back of the card. The front ends at the edge of the cream color and you can see how the little bear's foot hangs over the edge.
Ddd
If this looks familiar it is because I had two of these text stamped pieces mounted on scrapbook paper. I decided to not reinvent a layout and started out making it pretty much the same as last week's. But then I had to change up the paper colors, use different trims and added brad.
The same - but different.
Ddd
No pins, no needles, no thread, no stitching! That's right... this card has absolutely not a single stitch on it.
I started with the blocks which are preprinted on cardstock. I used a square punch so they would be identical. They were glued down and little 'stitches' were drawn all around them with fine-line markers. Then I added a cardstock sticker at the borrom that looks like it is quilted. This, too, got the pen stitching. Finally, I added two side strips of rub-on borders that look like fabric tape with stitching.
The background cardstock has a linen finish so it looks a little like fabric, too.
Ddd
A junk mail brochure recently netted me this great photo of a field of yellow flowers backed by trees. I selected similar colors in cardstock and tore them and layered to create an imitation of the landscape for a background.
The picture is trimmed out with gold peel-off sticker border and I added a matching gold greeting.
Ddd
Bits and pieces left over from other projects come together to make this little card. In trying to find some border stickers I ran across these rub-on stitches that I forgot I had. The colors were perfect!
Lots of layers!
Ddd
To feature this cross-stitched clover I actually cut the aperture in the front of the card. The stitched piece is mounted inside and the cut out piece is mounted on the back of it to cover up the stitching.
The interior has a copy of an Irish plessing glued in.
Ddd
Taking up the 'challenge' again, I put together this 'side hinge' card. The front and back are scored at 1/4 inch from the fold then the front only is slit and the front piece slides in and the whole hinge is sealed closed.
I decorated with cutouts, ribbon, stamping, gel pens, and stickers.
Ddd
Since I had more of these little rose squares already punched out I decided to put together another card, much like the first one. However, I did not have the same embellishments available so this one is changed up a bit.
I used a parchment sticker for the greeting, mounted over rose colored paper and distressed. This is curved in mounting so it does not lie flat on the surface of the card. Two of the little squares had buttons in them so I added a button of my own to the card and tied a bit of the chenille yarn through the holes.
Again, I used the chenille yarn at the fold, bu this time tied a bow instead of a knot.
Ddd
This gift card started as the embossed insert from a Christmas card. I cut it out and used a distressing pad with 'cranberry' ink to make the raised impression stand out.
After mounting on teal cardstock, I added a gold sticker medallion to cranberry cardstock and cut it out.
Ddd
These little artworks with roses were part of a full sheet and I used a square punch to make individual tiles from them. They had this old script in the background so I added a similar background to the folded card base.
The text strip and text block are from a sheet of stickers, one of which is layered on a piece of toen mulberry paper.
I used a piece of chenille yarn tied on the spine to resemble twine.
Ddd
Another diamond fold from the 'I'll use that later' pile has its day in the sun.
The stamping of the flower background is also a leftover from last summer. It has been colored up with watercolor pencils. A diecut 'thanks' block was the extra when I cut out another piece with a multi-text die.
I added a silk flower with a flower brad center and added the rest of the greeting with black pen.
Ddd
Here is a diamond fold card base I had on the desktop for a while. The asian graphic is a section from a card someone gave me at Christmas. LOVE the colors in the bird so I duplicated them in the top panel by using torn mulberry paper and a diecut text.
Strategically placed red rhinestones and some gold peel-off stickers pull it all together.
Ddd
Lovin' layers lately...
Since I had a scrap of shimmery parchment with butterflies I decided to use it as a background and then used a Spellbinders die to cut and emboss a butterfly out of shimmery cardstock. Two tones of teal cardstock and a diecut label with organza ribbon pull it all together.
I like to pull up the butterfly wings and attach it only at the body so there is dimensionality to the card. Then I added 4 oval teal rhinestones for the body.
Ddd
Start with an acrylic stamp, color up with watercolor pencils, fold a brown card, sut an aperture with a Nestability die, mount the stamping behind the aperture, add sticker flowers to the stamping, cut a 'bracker' with a die cutter, mount it at the botton - between the layers, apply rub-on borders down the sides, add a text ticket, sketch out a text block, cut it and apply, and add some more flower stickers here and there. Whew.
So now you know how it's done.
Ddd
This is the LAST scrap of this lovely paper so I decided to use it as a feature. I used two Nestabilites dies together to create the yellow frame and a circle punch to make the green center piece.
Stacking, stacking and more stacking with colors drawn from the feature paper. I had the little strip of text, cut from a scrapbook paper, in the scrap bin. Everything is mounted with pop-dots and I trimmed it up with gold peel-off stickers.
Ddd
Another bizzare color shift. This is kraft color cardstock, dark teal embossed piece, bright orange script and thread, and all the greens actually match. Of course, with the preview screen on the camera broken, I never know this until I upload it to the computer.
This was another bunch of scraps from the 'leftovers' bin and the zipper element is actually printed on cardstock. Except - I tore apart a real zipper and attached the head on the card. It just seemed like it would be funny.
Ddd
Stole salvaged the stamped text on mulberry paper which was mounted on the leaf-print paper (thanks, Judith). My part of the project was to select coordinating colors of cardstock, plan a layout, and add gold sticker leaves and trim.
This was the result of smooshing things around on the 'leftover pile' until it became obvious which parts belonged together.
Ddd
I have NO idea what happened to the colors on this! Let me enlighten you... The background is 'brick', the scalloped oval is 'olive', the text block is 'chocolate', and the flowers are 'bright yellow'. See what I mean?
I added gold dot stickers to the center of the flowers, borders to the top and the bottom, and sticker waste from scroll-y corners to several areas of the card.
Oh, by the way, don't look Mom!
Ddd
