Card Creations

So besides creating scrapbook pages, my all-time FAVE thing to make has got to be cards. And NOT clean and simple “minimalistic” cards, mind you. I’m talkin’ cards with lots and lots of layers and embelishments. Serious-amounts-of-extra-postage-needed-to-mail CARDS!

The best time to make cards? When you have a work surface piled high with left-over scraps from a scrapbook page or other paper project. Afterall, why put stuff away to only drag it all back out again? Yeah, I know. Right?

 “Sugar and Spice” card by Nancy Burke. Materials used: La Di Da collection- paper pad (PP809) die cuts (DC311), colour rub ons (RB848), pearls (SB788), embellishment pack (EM909). Other: buttons, string.  

One little note about the above card and several of my other pages and projects you maye have seen here and there:

 I love the look of adding a little something to “finish” off the edges of my papers. Whether it is a bit of sewing, inking, sanding, or, as in the above photo- ”edge distressing”. To create this look, there are specific tools out there to “distress your edges” (sounds like something that will need surgery or a good therapist to fix when you’re older, but I digress). But before these handy dandy little tools came along, there was a no-cost method to achieve the same look. Simply open your scissors slightly and run your paper edge along the far inside edge of the deep “V” where the scissor blades meet. Easy peasy! Instant distress.

Here is another card I did using the Shaken Not Stirred collection from January’s release:

“Just Because” card by Nancy Burke. Materials used: Shaken Not Stirred collection- Daniel (P468); paper pad (PP808); embellishment pack (EM908); acrylic stamp (CS906); rhinestones (SB777). Other: large silk red and white flowers, black crocheted trim, gingham ribbon, sewing machine, thread. 

Thanks for looking!