Quick and Easy Card

     The weather has cooled off but still not much rain. We had a cloud burst about 3:00 am but by the time I said, “It’s raining” it was over. Maybe tonight and tomorrow we’ll get a decent rain.

    Since coming back from a terrible train ride to Ottawa and back, (10 hours each way) I’ve been slow to get back to routine and get my energy back. It was great seeing family that we haven’t seen because of Covid and I was so happy to be able to watch my grandson get married, but the trip was stressful. So, I decided to just make a few cards but then I started making Halloween embellishments. I started out just die cutting some large silhouette dies but then decided to make the small embellishments so when I want to make the Halloween cards, the embellishments are done. I’ve enjoyed making these but if you don’t like fiddling with little pieces, these Tim Holtz Halloween dies are not for you. Yikes, time consuming big time!

    So, today I’m posting one of the cards I made last week. I’ve been trying to get a little more variety in my cards instead of layer, after layer, after layer. They take longer to make and sometimes I just don’t have the time or the energy to make them. So, quick and easy it has been.

                                          
    For this card I took a piece of double sided paper and cut it down to 4.25” x 5.5” to fit on a standard card size.  I made a score line about 1.5“ down from the top and in about 2”. then I made another score line about 2” down and meeting at the same place as the first one. Sorry, I don’t measure and really any measurement works for this technique. I made a cut halfway in between.  Then I folded back against the score line so the other side of the paper would show and glued it down with a tiny piece of double sided tape. A piece of darker wine cardstock was added behind the opening and a gold peel-off was added. Then I added this butterfly which was from a sheet that you popped them off - which left a weird coloured border around the butterfly and small bumps so it was hand-cut and then the edges were inked with a wine coloured ink. The butterfly was added with a strip of dimensional tape just down the centre. The body was a die cut from an old Memory Box butterfly die set. Left over bits of gold peel-off bits were added behind the butterfly.

    That’s all for a cool and windy Monday, September 12, 2022.

 Cheers

Violet

PS: To save a card to your Pinterest account, simply hover over the image until the ‘Pin It” symbol appears and then click…it sometimes takes a few seconds. This will take you to your own Pinterest account to save the card.