Friday, August 2, 2019

Making Lots of Cards and Using Up Scraps





This batch of cards was lots of fun to make!  It took me several days worth of crafting to get them done and I am so happy with how they turned out.  I have certainly built up my birthday card stash and I have a set of cards to give away!  :)

I used a card design that I have made several times, but I used slightly different supplies to give it a twist.  Here are a set of cards I made using washi tape.



I made this batch of cards using scraps of coloured card stock for my candles.  I started by pulling out each colour folder and sifting through them to find suitably sized scraps.  I looked for thin rectangles or pieces that I didn't think I could use for anything else.  I pulled out odd shapes of card stock too.  This took a while, but was easy enough. I made a pile for each colour and then started cutting them into rectangles that were about a quarter inch thick and about 2 and half to 3 inches long.  I didn't measure them exactly, I just popped it in my guillotine trimmer and just moved my card stock along, to cut each piece.

Now I had several piles of coloured strips. I then pulled out my embossing folders and chose ones with fun patterns, like a polka dot, chevrons, thick stripes and some shapes.  I put a variety of different colours into each folder and ran them through my die cutting machine using an embossing sandwich.


Next I made the flames for the candles.  I stamped a whole bunch of the leaf stamps from Eva's Favourite Flowers (by Winnie and Walter), using yellow and orange inks.  I tried die cutting these, but the shape wasn't quite right, so I ended up fussy cutting them roughly to make them more flame like.  I also tried cutting some flame shapes from orange cardstock which I used on one of the cards, but I liked the stamped ones better.


I die cut some Happy Birthday's and stamped some Birthday sentiments in different colours and I was ready to start assembling my cards.  I laid out some card panels and then arranged the 'candles' on each one.  I started out creating a rainbow of candles on each card, and I tried to use a variety of patterns on each card.  As I had more of some colours than others, I decided to make some cards with different shades of the same colour, and making some masculine colours on one card and feminine colours on others.  This was fun.

My suPURvisor is checking my work! 

While most of my cards were landscape, I decided I wanted to try a few portrait orientation as well.  Using liquid medium matte, I started adhering the candles and added the flames to the top of each one, all glued directly to the card panel.  I added stamped sentiments to the cards using foam tape.  If using a die cut sentiment, I stacked them two or three high.  I added clear Wink of Stellar shimmer to the flames of each candle too.  Finally, I used some sequins and stickers to some of them for some final embellishment.


Phew, when starting this set of cards, I was quite ambitious.  I think if I decided to make more cards like this, I would probably make fewer cards at a time.   The design has a lot of steps, so 10 was a bit much. Anyway, I hope you feel inspired to pull out your scraps and make some fun cards.

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