Handicrafts by Kate Perry and other ramblings

Tuesday, March 6, 2012

Five flower cards

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I showed the beginning of these cards on last week's post WOYWW, so I thought I'd do a quick post today to show I did finish them.

The idea was to use up some long-hoarded stash so I started with a selection of decoupage flower sheets, and a bundle of pre-cut and folded cards. I never buy either of these now but I used to and I have several boxes of them that really need to be used up! So each card has some decoupage on the main image, but I don't use all the layers because of posting them to UK. I then raided a box of rarely disturbed small paper stacks, and my snippits box and found mounts and embellishments for each card. The newest thing I used was the metal sunflower which I saw in the shop where I go for my parchment craft classes. There were nine on a sheet for 1 euro which I thought was a bargain, and as I had hoped, I found I could easily colour them with my copic markers. I also used some ribbons and gems, a Marianne die-cut butterfly and fancy circle frame, some foiled bee stickers, a clear square dome sticker to make a small tile, a German scrap border, and some leaf sprays and letters cut with my Silhouette cameo. I used one card for my friend's seventieth birthday on Sunday, and the tall yellow one was commissioned by a friend for her daughter's fiftieth, but the rest will go into my box ready for when I need one.


I am entering this collection in :
Kaboodle Doodles Challenge 109: Think Spring - Let's see some Flowers.
Crafty Emma's Store Challenge 75: Flower Frenzy.
Make it Monday Linky Party 79: Any paper craft.
The card on the right is also entered for :
Crafty Purple Frog Challenge; Get inspired with yellow and green.

10 comments:

veronica said...

you're not the only one with decoupage to use up Kate! Congratulations on making such a good start

Shell Shearer Swinscoe said...

Wow, great selection of cards, always feels good to use old stash!

Thank you for sharing with us at CES Challenge this week, good luck!
Hugs Shell xx

Jean said...

A lovely set of "Bright and Beautiful" cards Kate. good to have some to keep for stand-bys. Jean x

kiwimeskreations said...

These are beautiful - and so good that you could re-visit stash and fins a use for it :-)
Blessings
Maxine

tiggertastic said...

what a joy to stop by your blog today
Good luck in the challenges, hugs Sarah-Louise My Blog
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Saskia said...

Always a good idea to use some old stash. I also have so many decoupage sheets that never see daylight.
I especially like the far right one!

Mona`s Bittelille Scrappekrok said...

Wow your cards are gorgeous! Love the decoupage. Thanks for joining us at the Crafty Purple Frog. Hugs...Mona

Unknown said...

I love all of your stash cards!! Isn't that great to use your stash? Thanks for playing along with Kaboodle Doodles this week. I'm a new follower.

Lisa Minckler said...

Each one so exceptionally and uniquely beautiful. Excellent job with all of these.



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Rosie Gustafson said...

I love your cards. The flowers are gorgeous. Thank you for sharing on MIM.