A Recycled Card

 Today’s card is all about recycling. A lot of my friends give me the greeting cards they have received - some are several years old and some are from overseas, which is really nice because they are huge and so pretty. Some of the greeting cards from England are about 7” x 9 “.  Some I can reuse and some go into the recycle box. Today’s card was made from an old greeting card….but you wouldn’t know it. It looks like an image popped out of a kit. The key is fussy cutting!

                                               

    Yes, I hand cut all those flowers including the areas in between - that’s what make it look like it came that way. The key is to cut those small areas first, not last. By cutting them out first you have more of the image to hold on to to keep it from shifting.  Once everything is hand cut, hot pink ink was sponged around each flower petal. That covers up any missed areas and makes them more uniform. Sometimes I use a black pen around the edges but it depends on the image. Then it was glued to the background and then onto the card base. The sentiment is a peel-off. Small silver dots from a peel-off sheet were added to the centres of each flower. These small dots are the left over pieces from fancy peel-offs - I use every bit of the peel-offs I can. It takes awhile to lift those tiny dots off the peel-off page and onto the card but I think its worth it.

That’s all for snowy - yes, snowy - Friday, March 11, 2022.

Cheers

Violet

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