A PERFECTLY CO-ORDINATED CARD USING OFFCUTS

Do you often find that when you look at a card, you see that the image, designer/background paper and embellishments are so well co-ordinated?

Here’s how it’s done:

Choose your image and designer/background paper, as well as some solid colour cardstock to match the colours in your background paper.

(I chose pale blue, green and orange)

Now colour your image using the colour palette you’ve chosen.  My image is Bugaboo Stamps' Fancy Umbrella - Umbrella 7

Mat/Mount your image on two layers of the coloured cardstock

Glue onto the designer/background paper, and onto the third colour cardstock

Punch some flowers from the offcuts of the designer paper and solid colour cardstock and glue onto one of the offcuts of solid colour cardstock.  Fussy cut around the petals, leaving a 2 mm border of the cardstock.  Glue onto the next offcut, fussy cut.  Repeat for the third colour of cardstock.

5.       Now your perfectly matching flower embellishments are ready to attach to your card.

Once the glue is dry, you’ll be able to curl the layers petals to add more dimension.  Top each flower with a gem or pearl.

There you have it - perfectly co-ordinated! 

luv'n huggz
Jen Leeflang
DURBAN
SOUTH AFRICA