August 2023

Echo Park A Dog’s Tail 6×6 Paper Pad

After the ephemera overload in the Spellbinders card kit, I wanted something simple.  I knew the Echo Park A Dog’s Tail paper pad included 2×3 inch cut-aparts which are great for making quick and easy cards.  To make it even easier, I decided to use one layout for all of the cards.

With 2 of each cut-apart, I was able to make duplicates of each card.  For the last card, I couldn’t decided if I liked the tone-on-tone paper for the background or the busy dog tag print so I made one of each.

In keeping with the quick and easy theme, I used Love from Lizi peel-offs instead of matting the horizontal panel running across each card.  For a bit of dimension, I added a few brads to each card and popped up the cut-apart panels.

Overall, a very simple project but I think the cards turned out quite cute.

This gets me caught up on blog posts that I can do until I take more pictures.  I’ve still got several stacks of cards I need to get to before my desk is cleared off and my craft room is back to a some what organized state.

Spellbinders Together is Best Card Kit

I am so behind on my blog posts.  I’ve got cards scattered all over my craft room just waiting for me to do a post.  Once that’s done I can take a few cards to my antique booth and package up the rest for donation.  So in an effort to catch up I’ve picked out a few of my favorite cards from each “collection” and plan to do a couple short and simple posts.

This batch of cards were made using Spellbinders Together is Best September 2021 monthly card kit.  As I know I’ll never “finish” the kit in one sitting, I focused on the die cuts, stickers and other ephemera.  I’ll save the stamp and die sets for the next time I pull out the kit.

I did make a few more cards with this kit, but it didn’t even make a dent in all of the die cuts, stickers and chipboard the kit includes.  I’ll have plenty to work with the next time I pull this kit out.