Cards 2!

 I shared a post last week which showed some of the stash of cards which I made over the Easter holidays.  Thank you for your kind comments on these.

Today's collection are all a bit more varied than last time.

This first one started with some scraps of yellow card which I had punched using my edging punch.I think they came from an old school exercise book. The blue tropical card was actually a tissue box which a colleague was chucking out- it was too pretty to waste! The butterflies are outline stickers from a large stash I have!

The next card features a felt flower I cut freehand some years ago and forgot about! I found the perfect paper to go underneath it and the small yellow flowers came from an egg box! The purple flower is a bit wonky but I don't mind!

This was a really easy card to make. I think I bought this white card topper (feels a bit lazy!) about 14 years ago!  The only addition was the silver glittery background which was part of someone's Christmas cracker that again I snaffled!

The dog was a layered sticker that came in a pack I believe. I layered it onto the inside of a card I received and finally used a thin layer of double-sided sticky tape and carefully stuck on tiny pink iridescent stars. I have owned the pot of tiny pink stars since I was 10. My Mum bought me the best present. It was a 3 layered tool/craft box which had lots of containers of heart and star sequins in a myriad of colours. Everyone received sequinny cards for years! I still have the originals now!

I created this sweetie jar using some reused plastic quite a few years ago but never actually used it! I finally stuck it to the card and added an edging mosaic of matching squares. In retrospect, I wish I had added some white gel pen reflections to make the sweeties look more shiny and 3D- it's not quite right but I am sure I can find some use for it!

My final card here uses my old favourite school prospectus blue! I used a Martha Stewart corner punch to edge this one (Fun fact: My stepmum has this same corner punch and I really wanted the same one but it had sold out on QVC where she got it from and it was £40 from craft sites online. About 2 years ago, a friend of Mum's was getting rid of craft stuff and GAVE me the very punch I had wanted 10 years before!). I added a gift tag which had been attached to a card from a child at school and then punched 6 gold stars from some packaging I had.

Do you have a favourite?

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