Sweet treats

You can tell I had a mammoth card-making sesh over the holidays! It happens when you get several weeks in a row with new cards featuring!

Sometimes, you see a card idea that is JUST GENIUS! You think, "Yes, I must make that!" and then months, years in this case, pass by and you don't do anything about them.

That happened with the amazing biscuit card!

Papercraft Inspirations did this feature with some biscuit designs and I decided to give it a go. Rather than using the templates and tracing them (which would involve photocopying, locating tracing paper and then transferring, I decided to make them free-hand.


This involved finding the suitable coloured papers-

• Custard cream and Jammy dodger come courtesy of a penpal letter envelope.
• Bourbon comes courtesy of the Aldeburgh festival guide-
• Pink Wafer biscuit comes courtesy of the craft stash.

I drew the shapes and then, on the back of them, I drew the designs (freehand) backwards.
Use an embossing tool (rather like an old biro that doesn't work anymore) and embossed all the designs.

Turned them over and in the case of the non-bourbon biscuits, used a white pencil to lightly draw over the lines and then went around the outside of them with a light brown/pink pencil to highlight them a bit more.

Annoyingly, I searched for my paper doilies which I wanted to 'serve' them on, to no avail (until yesterday-grr!) so I just stuck them to a textured lilac card-blank with 3d pads so they stuck out!

And voila, we have the biscuit card!

From one extreme to another, I was looking at the Daring Cardmakers link up from last week with the fruit theme and totally fell in love with Beckie's Clever design which made strawberries out of hearts and flowers. Immediately, I decided to make one! No, I couldn't wait!

To make my strawberries, I used my work-horse 'x-cut heart punch' to punch 9 hearts and used my dragonfly punch to create 9 green dragonflies

Embossing the strawberries, I layered them 3 atop each other to make the strawberries with one upside down dragonflies between each layer and stuck onto some gingham scraps,

Simples!

The last design was made at about 1am when I really should have been in bed.

This came about because I was looking at some honeycomb paper ice-creams on Louise's at Polka dots and freckle spots' blog and suddenly had a vision to make 3d looking ice-cream, so I punched about 6 circles in mint, strawberry and chocolate flavours and folded them in half and glued them down on top of another old envelope. Simple and sweet, I then took the scraps of gingham and scalloped them to make a frame.

SO easy to make (and cheap) but I'm quite proud of it!

So that's your Just desserts!

Any other ideas for sweet-based cards?  I've made quilled boiled sweets before but I fancy making some more!

Linking up to Creative Mondays with Claire Justine!

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