February 2019

So this weekend, I made 6 cards – 2 each of 3 layouts.  The first card used 2 papers – a pink/white stripe and a floral.  Scale-wise, I thought the pink/white stripe would be fine on a card.  I wasn’t so sure about the floral paper.  I used the stripe for the background and cut out a panel from the floral paper.  The panel had just one of the large flowers, a pink flower to coordinate with the stripes. I matted everything with black cardstock and added a few pink rhinestones for some sparkle.  I thought the right sided looked a little bare, so added a small black flag to the upper right corner.

For the next card I used some more of the stripe and floral papers.  I kept the layout very simple since I was using a larger piece of the floral paper.  I knew I would be adding a sentiment which would cover some of the floral paper and hopefully keep it from being “too much”.  I added a strip of the pink/white stripe paper to the top of the card and used a yellow ribbon to cover the seam between the papers.  To bring some of the pink from the stripe paper down onto the lower panel, I added a few pink rhinestones.

For the 3rd card I switched to some different papers.  I like the ticket paper and since it’s a tone on tone, I think it will work as a background even with the larger scale.  I paired the ticket paper with a floral that has a similar color background.  To brighten the card I added a pink matting to the floral paper.  I used a punch to add a lace border to the top of the matting and a die to create the strip across the card.  To pick up some of the other colors in the floral paper, I used yellow ribbon for the bow.  I die cut the “hello” sentiment twice, once from white cardstock and once from black cardstock.  I glued the die cuts together slightly offset to create a shadow effect.  To finish the card I added a few rhinestones.

As I’ve been working on Valentine cards, I decided to stay with that theme.  I changed the circles on the sketch to hearts.  I embossed the background paper and used some paper ribbon for the strip across the card.

I thought the 6×6 cut-aparts with some roller skates and the sentiment “That’s How I Roll” was funny.  The cut-apart was too big to use on it’s own as I’m doing A2 sized cards, so I split the cut-apart into 2 pieces and used the sentiment on one card and the roller skates on another.  I paired the sentiment with some of the roller skate printed paper and added a small banner in the upper left corner.

I paired the roller skates with some pink hearts and smiley faces paper and added a simple “Luv U” sentiment in the lower right corner.

For the next card I used another cut-apart.  I trimmed off the “To: and From:”, keeping only the sentiment.  I used some more of the pink hearts and smiley faces paper for the long banner and a diagonal stripe for the background.

Next I used the sentiment portion of another of the 6×6 cut-aparts.  I cut the sentiment using a square die.  The paper pad includes a cute dog print, so the “You Are Top Dog” sentiment was perfect.  I popped up the sentiment and added a few silver heart brads to the bottom right corner.

The next card I used some of the non-Valentine paper for the background and another cut-apart.  The card wasn’t very “Valentine-ish” so I added a die cut pink heart.

The background paper for this card has all kinds of cute sentiments, but is a bit busy.  Since a couple of the 12×12 sheets have prints or sentiments too large to include on a card, I trimmed off some plain portions and used it for the pink panel on the bottom of the card.  I think the pink panel helps tone down some of the busyness.

This card is my favorite so far.  I used the same background paper and another cut-apart.  To make the cut-apart a little larger, I added a strip of paper to the bottom.  The strip is cut from a 12×12 sheet made up of stripes of different designs.  I attached the cut-apart at an angle and added a few red rhinestones.

One of the 12×12 sheets had a row of dogs on the bottom 1/3 of the paper.  The dogs are really cute and I wanted to use them.  I matted the dogs on some white paper and added a scalloped border.  There was no sentiment so I added a small die cut heart and stamped “Be Mine”.