The trend the last while has been for using banners/flags. I am still enjoying playing around with size - width/length and colour/texture and quantity. The following cards all use them in variations on these themes. You don't have to have special tools to do this (although there are some lovely ones around!). The bare minimum is a pair of scissors, a ruler and a pencil. A paper trimmer and a square punch to make the notches is convenient if you want them all to look the same. The ultimate fancy way is to use the dies or framelit sets on the market from Stampin' Up, MFT, Sizzix ect. All these were created with a paper trimmer and a pair of scissors with some measuring up of notches by pencil and ruler.
This first one uses different widths, patterns and lengths layered. It uses all SU products.
Another layered banners but this time thet are a little offset from each other. All SU except for the layered Spellbinders snowflake die (Create a flake #1)
One banner as the focal point. All SU except for the spotty paper.
Two banners layered but I notched the bottom one at a sharper angle to create emphasis. All SU except for the patterned paper.
Last but not least! Lots of little ones - different lengths and layered. Cardstock and ink are SU. The stamp is old (ancient) PSX and the patterned paper is from Websters Pages.
On a Personal Note -
Well the weather has finally come good (for now! They say the weather cell that caused last week's horror is reforming and may return later this week!) We had so much hail on Saturday afternoon it looked like it had snowed! But all things in perspective - we had very little inconvenience compared to Chile and Nepal.
Hope to get out into the garden tomorrow. I am sneaking this post in between medical appointments and coffee with a friend.
Wishing you well in your part of the world.
Happy crafting!
Cheers
Susie
No comments:
Post a Comment