Sunday, December 29, 2024

Experimental card

 

It’s almost the end of 2024 and time to reflect on the past and plan for the future. I’m more of a plan for the future person and I plan to stay healthy and be creative. We had a very green and wet Christmas here in Ontario. In fact, yesterday it was 54F here – very unusually high temperatures for the end of December. Today it has been raining all day but still mild. More rain for the next couple of days too. It’s better than snow. I stay inside and make cards or quilt.

Today’s card was made using paper from a 6”x 6” paper pad that I had no idea how to use in a card.  I was tired of storing it and decided to just experiment with it. Here is what I came up with.

The original piece had roughly the same pattern on the left as the right. So the first thing I did was to cut it down to the 4x5.25. But that left the left side completely blank. So I pulled out a seldom used lace border stamp and stamped it along the left side. Not bad actually. Then I took the piece that was cut off and die cut a tag from it. That was enough to bring the same colours to the left side. A gold peel-off sentiment was added to the tag along with a tied bow. Then some die cut butterflies were added. It was mounted on a bright turquoise blue card base which really made it pop. It turned out better than I thought it would.

That’s all for a very wet Sunday December 29, 2024.

Cheers

Violet

 

 

1 comment:

  1. Aahhh Violet... i wrote you this lovely commnet then it wouldn't publish... sigh... Incase this second attempt goes through i want you to know i just love your experimental card! :) and wishing you a very Happy New Year! Hugs! deb

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