Using Digital Download Background Papers.
22 Aug 2010
For those of you who are new to this blog , you may not realise that every month Cardmaking-Companion issues a FREE monthly newsletter called, “News and Views”. With the newsletter comes 7 FREE digital background papers.
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Each month I show a card I have made with one of the free papers, and I thought this month I would share this with you on the blog.
I love this striking grey, pink and black floral paper. It’s quite a busy design but lends itself well to either a plain card or a more elaborate design.
This 6″ x 6″ card blank has been covered with the paper. I have some pre-cut cream hammer finish circles and one of these has formed the centre piece of the card. Onto this I have mounted a scalloped edge circle, cut with a Nestability, from one of Cardmaking-Ideas’ dotty papers.
I made a small bouquet of 3 rose floral embellishments and hand tied them with a pink ribbon, fixing them to the card with some PVA glue.
Around the edge of the circle I punched some butterflies, alternating a plain pink one with a “dotty” one. Small pink pearl embellishments were added to the body of each butterfly.
I decided to leave the card sentiment free but a peel off sticker would have worked in the bottom right hand corner.
Inside the card I used a pink insert and, as usual, punched a design into the bottom right hand corner.
I have already sent this card to a dear lady called Emma, who is 80 years old, and has just undergone a 7 hour back operation. Thankfully the operation has been a success and Emma is expected to make a full recovery.
Tomorrow is the turn of yet another young couple from our Church to get married (what are they putting in the coffee!) – Rachel and Phil.
However, as usual, my life has been really hectic so I had absolutely no time left to make them a Wedding Card myself. I frantically searched through all the card boxes of the cards we sell at Church. Luckily Anita had recently made this delightful card so I dutifully purchased it, but before writing it, decided it was so nice I had to share it with you.

This background paper is part of a stack I’ve had for ages and when I spotted this pretty floral topper it seemed as if they were meant to go together!
I made this other quick card.
It was quite exciting rooting through everything – some of the stuff was very old and had discoloured but I found a few sheets of these cute toppers.
This ballerina topper was also part of my find. It is so sweet that it makes a great card for a young girl. Again I have mounted it onto silver Mirri card and I’ve highlighted the flowers with a pinch of glitter. The card is covered with 


For the inside of the card I decided to use a pink 



