Today is World Card Making Day and I took the opportunity to create today for me. Not for a class, a blog hop, an upcoming birthday or any other reason and it was just what the doctor ordered. It has been a while since I have had "me" time in my craft room and I'll be honest, I have missed it.
I made two cards today and I am calling them two for one. I used a die cut from the soft sayings card kit and sponge daubers and created a die cut frame and background image. Hence the two for one tag line I am using.
As I backed the die cut frame on black cardstock it has helped the colours of the frame "pop" a lot more and the white lines on the background image make the colours I used appear more subtle and subdued, compared to the die cut frame (despite them being the exact same colours). It is interesting how the additional elements you add to a card affects the overall look and colour of it.
These are the colours I used to sponge dauber onto the die cut and to create the background panel.
To finished off the die cut frame card kept it as simple as I could so the focus was on the die cut image. I used die cut accents from the soft sayings kit and an additional stamp set (jar of love).
Close up
I turned the background image into a shaker card. Basic pearl jewels (coloured with Stampin' Blends marker) were placed in the centre of the flowers and dazzling diamonds in floats in the shaker portion of the card. I stamped on the window sheet with staz on (and detailed with love stamp set) and finished off the card from with some fussy cut stamp images (from Soft Sayings Card Kit).
Close up
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Which card is your favourite and did you create on anything on World Card Making Day?
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