Hello bloggies,
For those of you who follow me on Facebook, you will know that a few weeks ago I stated that I wanted to try something off my Pinterest each weekend. I failed at doing anything last weekend due to being a bit busy, but I have just tried something tonight and I wanted to share!
Recently I have become interested in making my own cards and have found that Pinterest is a really great place to find some card tutorials and general inspiration. I have been slowly collecting some materials to make the card with. My amazing mother even sent me a care package with a bunch of tools and things to help me get started. Also, before I dive too deeply into this post I want to apologize for the photo quality. I am taking all of pics with my phone because I let my boyfriend take my nice camera with him on vacation and he won't be back until Friday and I just didn't want to wait that long.
The header picture of my blog really shows my whole collection and I wanted to get a little bit more in depth to what I use.
These are just a few of the tool that I have. Scissors, and exact-o knife, some little wire cutters and pinchers, and some punches in cute designs. I do have a larger pair of scissors but I couldn't find them ANYWHERE!
All of this ribbon was given to me by my mother in the care package she sent me a few months ago. I think she found most of them at Joanne's on their little clearance sections in the scrapbook areas they have. It's some seriously cute ribbon even if it was cheep!
This is just some decorative items I have. I have some tape with cute patterns on them, some little buttons and sparkles, some cute cut outs and, of course, little cards!
This is the paper that I have. I know it's not a huge collection but for what I'm using it for it does the job! I also have a large stack of plain colored construction paper but I didn't honestly think it was exciting enough for it's own picture.
Finally, my glue! I have tacky clue, some roll on sticky tape stuff, and a ruler! You can't really make cards and expect them to look nice and even without a ruler! Right?
Well, now that you have seen my little collection it's time for you to be apart of my card making process. I generally like to sit on Pinterest and look for some idea/inspiration on my Chromebook. Once I have found a card that I think I can do I get started by choosing my colors and patterns with my paper. I have chosen to with with pink, a pink floral, a wood pattern, and a pop of green decorative tape.
Doesn't that look so pretty together?? Next I cut out all of my pieces. For this card I decided to use the pink paper as the base of my card and kind of build up from their with the wood and floral paper. I also added a little bit of black paper to help add some drama and shading. The tools I used were my ruler, scissors, and a little pencil to help me with my straight lines. Then I just simply layed everything down to help eyeball where I want to glue my pieces.
My next step was to glue everything into place and add the cute little decorative tape to add that little pop of green.
I kind of wanted to stop here but then I thought that the card needed something else so I took my larger punch and punched out some pink flowers and but them in green tape just to break it up a bit.
Once I was happy with that I glued them down with tacky glue. Now because my printer is currently on the fritz I decided to hand write "Thinking of You" into the floral bit.
There you have it! My finished card!
I hope you enjoyed this post! It's a little bit different then what I have been blogging about but I think it's okay to branch out and talk about new things once in awhile. If you have any questions or just have something to say please leave a comment down below! Also, remember to follow me on Bloglovin'!
Byeee!
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