Triangle Card

Happy Autumn everyone!  It's the end of September and autumn is finally here.  I love the cool temperatures and the changing of the leaves on the trees. Mother Nature's color palette is beautiful this time of year.  We can use if for our card making backgrounds; and that is just what I did this weekend. We have a very good friend who is in the hospital and I needed to make a get well card for her, and here is what I came up with.  It is also my first attempt at a triangle shaped card.  It turned out a bit small, but I think cute.  I also made the flower myself from scratch.  I got the instructions from a pin I got off of Pinterest!!  So, here it is:

Here is the front of the card.  The tag says "thinking of you." I used three scraps of paper to cover the front, ran through an embossing folder, covered the joining edges with gold satin ribbon then added the flower, tag and butterfly.  Butterflies are my latest craze!  I just can't seem to make a card without finding a spot for one somewhere!


Now here is my homemade flower! It was pretty simple to do.  I cut the shapes from my Cricut using the George cartridge. Now I can custom make my own paper flowers for each card that I want one on from now on. YEAH!  Woo-Hoo!!!!

And, last but not least, is my little butterfly! Isn't she a cutie?  She sparkles and shines!  She has two layers for dimension.  I rollered the top one so it would look like she was flying.

Hope you like my card, or at least get some inspiration from it.  I got my inspiration from Card Creations magazine, they had a section on triangle cards. Thanks for looking.  Have a great week.

Hugs,  Barb

Happy Monday?

Happy Monday everyone!  I'm home with a migraine, had one all weekend.  I've got to call and go see my doctor soon.  But enough about  me! 

My co-worker who is also my friend, and I went to a scrapbook store in Wichita Falls, Scrapbook N Such,  recently and spent the day there taking some super classes there put on by Bazzill Papers.  We learned how to make 9 cards in 90 minutes, an album and 3 scrapbook pages.  We had so much fun learning things and spending the day together doing what we love to do in our spare time.  We both have so much passion making cards, that we went back to the hotel room and spent two more hours working on fine tuning our cards and making another couple more!  We picked up some quick tips and some new techniques.  That is what we hoped for along with just getting away to do what we love to do .... CARDS!

I need to make an auction item for our chamber's upcoming "country fair" which is their annual fund raiser.  I have made a set of cards for the past several years now and included them in a really nice gift box, luggage type looking case, with pen, stamps, and address book.  So, I've got to get inspired to work on that real soon!  It usually will sell for around $50 which makes me feel really good!  I have a couple of weeks to work on them, so get after it....

I will get some new pictures posted as soon as I get my cards made for the chamber gift.  So, stay tuned!  :)

Hugs,

Barb