Well for once I only have a single card to show this month. It has been too hot in my craft room in the afternoons for me to do much crafting, and I needed a few birthday cards more urgently than Christmas ones. But here is today's offering.
I bought the Heartfelt Creations stamp recently in a sale bin of an online store. Having stamped it I tried to find a die-cut frame that it would fit into, and eventually came up with these. I think the plain ones are from a Spellbinders set - labels 7 and the red layer is the matching fancy set, but I can't be sure as I seem to have lost their information card. The outer frame is cut from gold glitter card.
I coloured the image with alcohol ink markers, and mounted up the three layers.
I cut the 15cm base card from an A4 sheet of heavy white card and added the gold dots border top and bottom using my Foil Press. I love the effects you can get with this machine but don't find it easy to use. Even with no plates in my cutting machine, the foil press stamp almost cuts through the card. But I like the dots and want to try using them again in silver on a dark base card.
I used 1mm foam pads to mount the topper centrally and there we have it. A relatively easy and quick card to make. I may do some more, but with several of my social groups looking unlikely to restart before Christmas, I will not need so many cards this year. (As we live in rural Spain, we do not know the addresses of many of our group members, and some have no postal address and rely on sharing a box on a panel at the end of the street, so unless I see them in person, I am not likely to get a card to them). But I will probably make a few more yet. There is always the next Christmas to use them!
I will now link up with Rudolph Day Challenge# September and see what everyone else has made.
