I have wanted to display some scrapbooked elements in my Tearooms for some time as I thought it would be nice to embellish the place with some hand made decoration.
Obviously I want to stay within the theme of all things tea related and/orVictorian (as it has a Victorian Theme to the tearooms), and so I [...]
I’ve had a request for some Vintage letters for use on cards and scrapbook pages! I mentioned a while ago about some Very old Genuine letters my husband had in his possession. (click here for the article and video)
Anyway Sue, from Canada, has asked if I could let her know where she can download any [...]
This is a sweet picture of a little girl, and one that I would think, would definitely appeal to Grannies everywhere! Ooh, is that being ageist?
Anyway, I used a whole 6×6 piece here and border punched opposite sides and then put in graduated folds for interest. I suppose I got the idea so that it [...]
Simple, but made much more effective by the layering of a couple of contrasting layers of border-punched patterned papers.
I realise I said I would put these up “tomorrow” and it’s a bit later than that, but se la vie! I only have so much energy!
So here are the two cards I made using the left overs from the cards in the previous post!
My original idea was to create a load of cards for sale in the Tearooms, and to make a number the same so that I could make cards quicker. Well it didn’t really work because the papers I had bought only had one page of each design! Plus I was trying to use up scraps, [...]
This is just a small card - 4×4″, or a little over, I used all three Martha Stewart punches I bought as a set from QVC recently, on this one!
The Belly-band punch in the darker blue, the border punch in the middle at the top and the corner punch. I particularly like the way you [...]
The image for this card was fairly brown (ie, sepia as opposed to black and white) so I went with the colour theme on the background colour and the embellishments.
Another lesson in layering there… a bit of lace gathered into a flower with a flower on top (white one coloured with an ink pad) and [...]
So this image is the same as the last couple of cards, but I want to show you how the same picture can be used in many different ways, even more so when it is a black and white picture.
I have printed this image slightly smaller to fit this size card, which is only about [...]
Ok, so this is the same image as yesterday’s card, but look at the difference in treatment and colours! Agais a single piece of patterned paper wrapped around the card front and a little matting and embellishing.