Friday, 19 August 2011

Birthday Card

I did say I would upload Chas' Birthday Card the other week and am finally getting around to it.  For some reason it would not scan at all well and so I ended up taking a photograph of it.

It started off like a card I had seen on the internet but I could not understand the instructions at all - you had four 'fanned' pieces of card (stay with me on this one - mountain and valley folds?).  You had to put glue in the valleys of one of the pieces and attach the other one to it.  Now how do you do that?  No cutting is involved so how does one piece fit to the other?

Anyway, 'dipsy doo' here had it firmly in her mind that she wanted to do this particular card for 'himself'.  So she set about making four card fronts - each one to be another layer attached with mounting foam.  This is the result:


The stamps are Elusive Images and Crafty Individuals and the colouring was with watercolour crayons - at least the painting was nice and restful.

What I realised after I had painstakingly cut each of these out, leaving the frame intact, was that I could have just stamped the images, yes I would still have had to cut them out, and then mounted them one over the other with different thicknesses of foam tape.

Then you wonder why I am blonde!!