I used to really struggle with making cards, i sometimes still do.
For many years I was a traditional scrabooker and paper crafted using a 12x12 square base and when I tried to make a card I was stumped by the sheer lack of space that I had to work with.
These days however I have been embracing card making and tags, it has taken a bit of practice, trial and error but I finally got to a happy creative place with that small space.
One of the things that I love about the smaller scale of cards is that they are less overwhelming to try new techniques with, generally are less time consuming than a scrapbook page as alas I am a slow scrapbooker and exceptionally time poor these days and they are a great way to use up small amounts of left over products.
If you know me at all in person I LOVE to be able to use as much of a product up as I can, I love frugal DIY's and I am a huge advocate of using all the old product and cards are perfect for this.
This was a fun experiment with gelatos, stencils and modelling paste, I also got to use my favourite cupcake stamp from docrafts.
These tags are an example of a great way to use up older products in your stash. These tags came from a craft kit and had sweater type prints on the bottom of them that I would never use. I managed to salvage them by covering up most of the pattern with washi tape.
How I love this card. This was a lengthy make as I just could not get this card "looking" right.
I think it looks perfectly adorable now though.
Sometimes ideas don't pan out the way that you envision them in your head and sometimes you just need to play around with different ideas. This is another card that has a few DIY and saved items on it. The glitter hearts are from a homemade glitter paste, The card base is years and years old from when I worked in a wedding and invitation store and the gorgeous vintage girl image was cut from a pocket page card that I would never use for it's intended use as a pocket page card but I just loved her so much that I needed to find a way to incorporate her into my crafting somehow.
I think it looks perfectly adorable now though.
Sometimes ideas don't pan out the way that you envision them in your head and sometimes you just need to play around with different ideas. This is another card that has a few DIY and saved items on it. The glitter hearts are from a homemade glitter paste, The card base is years and years old from when I worked in a wedding and invitation store and the gorgeous vintage girl image was cut from a pocket page card that I would never use for it's intended use as a pocket page card but I just loved her so much that I needed to find a way to incorporate her into my crafting somehow.
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