Made for Paper - Designs by Lis: 2013-12-29

Friday, January 3, 2014

Journaling Note Card - Love

Hi and welcome to another card created using the Making Memories Journaling Spiral Bound pads. I love these die cut pads because I get some pretty patterned paper form not much money and a whole lot of creativity.

Today's card is using the white, beige and red paper below.

Since I tore it out of a spiral journal, I needed to trim the edge off.

Once I did that, I decided to edge it in gold. (You can see a couple of boo boos but never fear, there is always a way to fix them!) I wanted to use some red suede paper and a white card base.

I knew that my card would be shorter than the card base I was using (I wanted to start out with a little more than what I needed - just in case!) Below you can see that I used some double sided tape to adhere my journal note and my suede paper. NOTE that I only put enough tape on the back of the suede paper to adhere to the journal sheet (also pictured). That's because I plan to mat the journal sheet.

Once the suede paper was adhered to the front of my card base, I used Red Liner tape to adhere my journal sheet to the suede paper.

I started to cut my mat by cutting completely through the top left and right corners.

Then I cut a 1/8 border around the journal sheet.

Now its time to cover the inside of my card. I chose some pretty paper from Pebbles - "From Me to You. -lovely for Valentine's.

After I covered my card I decided to trim the back of the card also 0 on the sides only to match the front.

Here you can see it better.

Then I trimmed the bottom off. My card dimensions ended up 6 inches high x 4 1/4 inches across.

Next I used the LOVE die from Frantic Stamper (new for Valentines) and the backing from a Prima flower package to cut out my LOVE die cut. I adhered it to the suede paper with dots of glue on back and then cut around the word to mat.

I have to tell you that when I first started to try out the "hand cutting a mat" I was skeptical. I have never been a good free hand artist. I NEED a ruler! But with a small pair of sharp scissors and patience I've done fairly well. It does look great when its done! I encourage you to try it for yourselves.

Here is my finished card! The flower on the left is from Prima and yes it is a lovely white with FEATHERS!!

Here is a close up of the LOVE die cut. I added one gold heat which I think turned out really well.

Here is the border I made at the bottom of my card. I used DAZZLES stickers (Hot off the press and yes, Fran carries them). I think I must be addicted. I love love love these stickers, especially the borders and the jewel dazzles.

I hope that you enjoyed my card today and that you try some of these techniques to make a card.

Lis

Cards using Journaling Notes as card fronts - Bonjour

Today I would like to share a technique for using those small Journaling spiral notebooks that one uses for scrapbooking. Over the next few weeks I will be using different ones to show you how you can incorporate these into cards.

1. I chose the two different journaling notebooks below. The Spiral bound red one is from Making Memories. The black one behind it comes in a pad and is made by Hot Off the Press.

2. I chose one sheet from each notebook - one for each card.

3. For my first card, I chose the HOTP die cut paper. The page itself measures about 6 inches across so I used white card stock and created a card measuring 6 x 5 1/2 inches.

4. I covered the front of my card with gold ripple holographic paper (also HOTP).

5. Then I attached my page with glue tape.

6. I wanted to add flowers to my card front. I wanted green leaves so I took a green flower and...

...cut it into thirds.

7. The flowers and the leaves were attached with glue dots. I added a yellow/green ribbon and bow, and added my word "Bonjour" also cut from the gold ripple paper.