Cardmaking-Companion-Blog

This weekrnd is the Bank Holiday Weekend here in the UK. The weather is glorious and I've been having a bit of a Spring Clean through the house trying to get rid of things we no longer need or use.

However Spring Cleaning needn't be just about housework - it can extend to your card making as well!

Here's a quick card I made last night ready to replenish the dwindling supply of cards I sell at Church (another 38 were sold yesterday so that means another 38 children will be clothed, schooled and fed for 1 day).

The feature tag was made by my good friend Linda, it was the gift tag she gave me on my birthday present a few years ago. Like all of Linda's work this is beautifully done and I just couldn't throw it away so it has sat in one of my drawers ever since.

Anyway last night I decided to use it as the feature topper on a card.

The background paper has been fixed to a 6" x 6" white card blank and then I stuck the tag firmly down with double sided sticky tape. The ribbons compliment the colours on the tag and I decided to just let hang free rather than tying them into a bow.

The rubber stamped image has been coloured using water based inks and it has been matt and layered onto Mirri card, leaving just a narrow border.

The finishing touch is a sentiment topper, and inside I have used a pale green insert.

Because the topper was already made this card probably took me only about 5 minutes to assemble.

So the motto of this story is always to look at things that you might be able to recycle for your new cards!