I was preparing to go on a fishing trip for the weekend and knew I wouldn't see my TRUE LOVE on Sweetest Day.
She was out giving a greeting card workshop and I wasn't sure when I would see her again. So I figured I would make her a card to show my love. Since all of her card making supplies are still at her old house, I rummaged around the house looking for materials. I found some photo paper to use as my card base. I recycled a greeting card I received from the cable company apologizing for bad service (image of the arm holding the roses). I found the "For our past, our present and our future" in a soon to be used picture frame, an award ribbon and some tinsel. Only glue in the house was some vinyl glue from a pool patch kit and some nail polish.
I made the card by first cutting the photo paper using a card my "soon to be wife" made me as a template. I then trimmed the hand holding the roses from the greeting card. After folding the photo paper in half I glued the hand to the photo paper using the vinyl glue. After gluing it to the photo paper I realized it would look better if I trimmed it so the "From our past our present and future" would lie on the photo paper and not the Hand piece of paper. Before I glued the second piece I noticed I had about a half inch of empty space on the left side. I figured I would use some kind of bow or ribbon to fill it I found the award ribbon trimmed and placed it on the photo paper. Then I glued the "For our past, our present and our future" on top of the ribbon and in place.
I was pretty happy with the results but felt I was cheating because I used some already printed material. So I thought to myself how can I put my mark on to the card. I came up with "1,000,000 I luv u's". I cut the words out of a piece of photo paper to make sure it would fit. I found nail polish to use as glue. I was going to use cracked pepper but after searching through the house for something that sparkled, I found some tinsel. I minced the tinsel with a butcher knife and poured it on to the nail polish. Unfortunately, i forgot to cut the comas and apostrophe - and there you have it my first card!
Materials: Premium Photo Paper, Misc Paper prints. nail polish, vinyl glue, award ribbon and Minced tinsel.
Date: Sunday, October 21, 2007 GMT Views: 467
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Registered: February 24, 2004 Location: Paulding, OH Posts: 680
Sun, Oct 21, 2007 @ 6:17 PM
What a hoot, and how sweet, prolly took longer to find the supplies than it did to make the card.. hey, who says they are technically challenged.. great job and how ingenious.. goes to show you!!