Some of you may have noticd that I haven't been posting too many extra things the past couple of weeks. It's because I have been working on a set of twelve recipe cards for a swap over at Your Paper Pantry. I finally finished them up today and they'll go off in the mail tomorrow.
Our theme was soup/salad recipes. I found the last few sheets of this Cosmo Cricket veggie paper at my LSS and used it for the matting on the front of the card. I've glued everything onto some thin chipboard for stability. I ran some kraft paper through my paper crimper, wrapped it with some baker's twine and popped a cute Nestie diecut on top to announce my "Soup of the Day". The recipe card was printed out on my computer with a fun font, given a faux stitched edge with a pen, and attached to the base of the card with a paperclip. The yellow circle paper was on the other side of the pea paper so I just used a punch to cut out the little circles and hot glued them onto the paperclip for a custom embellishment.
For the back side of the card I found some cute green swirly paper at Hobby Lobby. It has some faux stitching too. I found those cute seed pack images on line, printed out a ton of them and popped each one on top of a little piece of balsa wood for little garden stakes. My dirt is just some brown paper raised up on pop dots to meet the height of the balsa wood. I printed out the sentiment on my computer, cut all the letters apart, inked them and glued them on haphazardly for a fun sentiment. The cute little bee 3-D sticker is from Mike's. Our garden always has plenty of bugs. LOL
Sigh . . . I love doing these swaps, but I put a ton of little things on here that took forever to put together. I'm not complaining now. That was totally my choice and I'd do it all again. I hope my swap partners like the cards.
I hope to have a couple of extra cards up besides my DT projects this week, but I'm not making any promises. Do you want to make God laugh? Tell Him your plans for the day (or week). LOL
Blessings!
I participated in two of the swaps at Your Paper Pantry for the month of July. The first one was an ATC swap with a patriotic theme. I found this cool little drum image on line and decided to cut it in fours for the card. The backing is Bristol paper that I sprayed with some Pearl Perfect Pearls mixed with water in a Mini Mister. I added a little gold star sequin for a little extra pizzazz. I love the brightness and shimmer of the background.
The second swap was a card swap with the theme of hello/friend. It's a very simple card as far as design. We had to make six of them. The image is one I won from the Digi Doodle Shop. I used my Derwent watercolor pencils to color it. The image and sentiment were cut out with Nestabilities and the purple layer was cut with deco edged scissors (yes Jan, I broke them out again--LOL).
week as Vacation Bible School director. We had a great group of kids and everything actually went pretty smoothly, but I've got so many things to catch up on.
The card base is watercolor paper. The background was colored using watercolor crayons. After it dried I stamped it using a script stamp. Two vintage images, some lace, and one of my little handmade roses finish it off. I hope my swap partners like it. I had to make ten of these and I finished them up this morning. One project I can check off the list. :)