Having examined the MFT sketch of the week, I rifled through a collection of circles from the 12x12 Gold Glam paper pad akin to the one that has been used up. This rose looked like a good place to start, but by the time the card was complete, the rose had been fussy-cut, shedding its circular frame and an annoying leaf that seemed to be rotated the wrong way, and the two circles had mutated into two hearts. I quite like gold foil on cards, but it never looks as good in photographs, at least the quick snaps that usually end up on this blog. Still, it was a good mental exercise to make a card so different from my usual symmetrical style.
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Things that I liked about today's card design: 1. It looks like stained glass. This was the original goal, but things do not always go according to plan. This time, it worked! 2. The inlay technique was surprisingly Zen…like putting together a jigsaw puzzle. I had never made anything quite like this before, and it was good to try something new. (gluing the intricate black die cut onto blue paper really expedited the process) 3. All three cards were created with scraps from other projects. It felt good to use some of the flotsam, rather than cutting large sheets of paper and having lots left over. 4. The focal point in the Christmas Window card was created with the same die, but it looks so very different here!
The last time I went to Michaels, back when browsing through craft stores was a normal thing to do, there was a beautiful Martha Stewart paper pad on the clearance shelf. Despite the long-standing injunction on paper purchases, I bought it, in addition to the little photo album which was ostensibly the purpose of the expedition. The gold foil paper on this card is from that collection.
Hero Arts is celebrating self care this week. One good self-care practice is to remember all the good things in life and express gratitude for them, so here is my "thankful" card design. We're still celebrating Autumn in April over here. . .next thing you know, I will be making pumpkin muffins and peppermint marshmallows! The back of the flipping element just has a cream-colored bumpy circle, left blank for a personal message. Sometimes I put something exciting back there, but it's kind of nice to have the inscription on the flip side, too.
Sometimes, a change is indicated. None of the card challenges this week were particularly appealing, and all the Christmas, birthday, and spring paper had temporarily ceased to be exciting. Enter the Pebbles Woodland Forest 6x6 paper, which I purchased in a moment of weakness and fantastic Black Friday sale at JoAnn last November. The first card uses two different patterned papers from the set, plus a small sentiment. Actually, only the gnomes on this card were from the Woodland Forest pad. The brown background is Lawn Fawn Knit Picky, and the sentiment and linked circles are from a Stephanie Barnard Sizzix die set.
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