I had a bit of a car accident on 17th September 2024. Thankfully, I was not hurt, but it is proving frustrating being without my car and relying on Mr Fixit to run me around. I am not comfortable driving his car, which is a V6 Holden Commodore, as it is just so big. My car is being repaired, so I am without a car for the next 8 weeks or so.
Anyway ....... back to World Cardmaking Day :)
I think it is such a fun idea having a day dedicated to cardmaking LOL so I took the opportunity to have a play with some of my recent purchases.
I have been keeping a lookout for Spellbinders Be Bold Blooms dies ..... usually they are over A$35 depending where you get them from, and with the added cost of postage, it makes it a very expensive purchase. I was lucky enough to come across a great deal on Amazon - A$23 with free postage! SOLD!
I started with rummaging through my offcuts/snippets ..... and made a selection of colours that I thought might work well.
I die-cut the flowers and leaves multiple times in multiple colours.
Once I had finished that, I then sorted through my stash of cardstock for the background, and I finally settled on the dark blue that was in my 'off-cut' bin.
My 'go to' cardbase is A6, which is half of an A4, folded in half. I used the Waffle Flower A6 Layers die to cut the cardfront to the perfect size.
My 'go to' cardbase is A6, which is half of an A4, folded in half. I used the Waffle Flower A6 Layers die to cut the cardfront to the perfect size.
Playing with the layout was lots of fun. I chose to stick fairly closely to the sample in the packaging for my first layout, while I got
familiar with the blooms. I have some pre-foiled/pre-cut sentiments that I have had for absolutely ages and was quite pleased that one of them worked with the layout.
A final touch of bling added randomly around the card ...... if you
call playing with the positioning for a good 5 minutes before deciding
on final layout random LOL
I am really pleased with the way this card turned out .... especially considering it is made entirely with snippets/offcuts (except the white 300gsm cardbase).
Linking this card with the following challenges: