Winter's Back....and a Card

        Winter’s back….brrrr. It barely got above freezing today and we had both rain and snow showers all afternoon. But the temperatures dropped to below freezing by the supper hour and the snow stayed. Here’s what we have right now….and likely more to come tonight.

My poor daffodils and hyacinths are covered in snow.

This is looking out my front window.

        I’ve decided to take the time to try some new-to-me techniques in card making while we are in self-isolation. I seldom do inlay cards and there are many ways to do it. Here’s is one I made.

        The rose was die cut out of white cardstock and then sat on my desk for days as I wondered what to do with it. I finally decided on the in-lay technique so I took some white cardstock and quickly added some water colour paint for a light water colour look. Because it was plain cardstock, I had to work quickly and not work the paint too much or it would pill up. Once it was dry I used the same die to die cut the painted cardstock but left the pieces in the die as it was flipped over. I tore off a piece of Press and Seal and placed it over the die and pressed the bits securely to the Press and Seal. That way they stayed in place as the die was removed. Then the stitched circle was die cut and the rose outline and leaves were glued in on to it. Then a bit of glue was squeezed into a couple of places and it was easy to simply pick up the inlay pieces and lay them down in the correct spot.  It was actually quicker than I thought it would be.

        To finish off the card a piece of dark brown ribbon was added down the left side; then the circle was glued down; then the die cut Kraft banner was glued on with dimensional tape. A gold peel-off sentiment and flower were added to the banner. Then it was all glued to a Kraft card base. I’ll make some of these using some different techniques too.

        That’s all for a cold and snowy Wednesday, April-15-20.

Cheers

Violet

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