More partially made cards salvaged on my desk. Last year I got a couple of packs of bulletin board decorating strips from the teacher section at Dollar Tree, thinking they would make great cards. I was right, they do, but each package of strips makes a LOT of cards, and I got bored and wandered off after completing several cards, leaving several with just the background assembled, planning to come back later and do something with them.
Today was later. I had three cards with green cardstock over the card front, topped with a piece of the bulletin board strips. I decided to keep it simple with just a birthday sentiment and die cut the sentiment from black cardstock and the shadow from bright pink, then glued together.
At that point I thought I wanted to make the sentiment a bit more dimensional and pop it up, but it was too difficult to try to do with foam tape. I borrowed a trick from Jennifer McGuire and die cut the shadow piece two more times from some thick patterned paper. bonus: I used a piece of ugly paper from a paper pad that had been hanging around for multiple years, and I had no idea how to use otherwise. It is one of those big scrapbook sized pages from a Christmas pad that shows the month of December like a calendar. I die cut two for each of the three cards I was making, glued them together and then glued the original sentiment on top. Then I attached it all to the card front. These will be going out to my seniors with birthdays this month.
USEIT2023: partially completed cards and some stupid paper that I never figured out how to use otherwise.
Date: Wednesday, November 1, 2023 GMT Views: 175
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