We've all seen a blog page and don't give it a lot of thought as to all the details that are there before you on the page. Lots of details to fill in. As I learn my way around I'll be customizing the page more and more to my style.
The first big leap will be my first pic upload.
Starting my blog a bit out of order, beginning with one of my most recent greeting card, created around Easter 2011. It's high on my favorite list, thus I thought it was a good place to start.
I call this card a Fairy's Spring Greeting.
I found my inspiration online in the gallery of Scrapbook.com http://www.scrapbook.com/ . It was around Christmas time and I saw the cutest Christmas card.
Sidebar:
The biggest lesson I've learn was in 2005. It doesn't matter where you find a card. Be it a card making book, (many published in the UK), or find cards in online galleries. You will almost never find the exact design papers or embellishments. Unless you willing to do mail order and pay shipping and handling, your best bet is to use your local craft stores, and use the card designs as a springboard for you own creations.
What's nice about that, it's now your own original creation!
Don't get me wrong, mail order is not a bad option. But you'll have to be willing to waiting to begin your project. Usually I want to start working now, when I have time, not later in a week or two when I have all my tools and wait until I have time again to work on my project.
Additionally, I found when a card making book is published in the UK, the paper and embellishments are hard to find in the US, and mail ordering from the UK can be pricey.
So back to my fairy card...
I find this beautiful vintage image Christmas card in the gallery, and I know there is no way I can replicate the image. So I print the image and add it to my album filled with inspiration ideas.
One day I'm at my favorite paper craft store, Scrapbook Island, (visit them on their Facebook page), and I find the prettiest fairy paper. It's 12 x 12, and has 6 vintage styled postcard type images of fairies and postcard type greetings. And if that isn't enough on one sheet of paper, the side is framed with smaller fairy "stamps".
I see this paper and I remember the Christmas postcard card, and I know exactly how I'm going to use this paper. I also think, wow!, I can layer this. Double up the wings and give it a 3D feel. That means buying multiple sheets. One for the image, and another for cutting up to add a layer for the 3D image.
I found a light green card stock, and a foliage print background, that conjured up images in my mind of Tommy Bahama. I layered all these papers together, with the fairy postcard on top.
The fairy with chick, and the fairy "stamp" is framed in a golden glittered paper with green undertones. The fairy and chick features the double butterfly 3D image. (Hard to see in a "flat" image pic.) The floral head piece is both fairy images are textured with "moondust", and the chick is textured with a heavier product which give him a really fuzzy texture. (Again, hard to see in a "flat" image pic.) The fairy postcard appears to be held in place with a simple bowed ribbon.
