Creative Cardmaking by Janette Goodall
Category: Cards
We all know this in relation to weddings, something old to go with the beautiful new dress. I have been looking through old cards, stamps and pictures, and feeling quite nostalgic so decided to use some of the old stamps with some new papers. This set, Baroque Motif, was always a favourite of mine. The paper I used is from the Abigail DSP collection.
I wanted to create a design to highlight the new beautiful Wonderful World DSP currently being offered in Stampin’ Up!’s Sale-a-bration this season. I also used the Happy Birthday stamp from the Calming Camellia set, and fussy cut the flower cluster from the DSP.
I don’t make a lot of masculine cards, I am a girly girl and love flowers and butterflies and pretty cards, but I needed to make a card for the design team I’m a part of at Paper Craft Secrets (Facebook group), and also for Father’s Day coming up. I did have a lot of fun designing and making these cards. As I mentioned I’m not great at masculine cards so I spent time scrolling Pinterest for ideas, I’m sorry I can’t credit anyone specifically, but am thankful for the inspiration.
I spent today CASE’ing the new Stampin’ Up! catalogue using the True Beauty Bundle. I absolutely LOVE this set, I think it may be one of my favourites!
I am sharing a card I made for the Global Design Project Sketch Challenge. I love this Forever Fern stamp set from Stampin’ Up!, it is so versatile and it has become my ‘go to’ set for foliage. The sketch is below. I started by die cutting a circle in the white cardstock, mounting it onto a piece of grey cardstock and tucking the stamped and die cut foliage into the gap. Very simple.
This is a very simple card which I made for some creative expression, just to play. I used fussy cut flowers from the retired Beautiful Friendship stamp set on a soft green card.
This is a different card for me, but when I finished it and stood back I totally fell in love with it! The layout is from a card in the Stampin’ Up! catalogue, but I used what I had so it is quite different. I will definitely make this one again. I learn so much when I see a picture of something I like, copy parts of it and begin designing and creating it in my own style.
What about you? Where do you get your inspiration from?
Have fun creating!
Love
Most of my stamps are of flowers because I love them, and I love two-step stamping. This one is especially easy to use, as it doesn’t matter if it doesn’t exactly match up, it still looks great. I used an old Stampin’ Up! quatrefoil embossing folder on the Merry Merlot card to give some texture to the design.
This card is a copy in a way of one I saw somewhere, but don’t remember where. I just knew I wanted to make it, I didn’t have the same stamps or embossing folder, so used what I had. I love how it turned out! I used an old diagonal pattern embossing folder and turned it around to run it through again to give it the checked look.
CASE’ing is an acceptable practice in crafting, it means Copy And Share Everything! And as the Bible says, there is nothing new under the sun 🙂
Thanks for popping in,
Love
This card was made for a dual purpose, a Butterflies & Lace Challenge for the Facebook group Paper Craft Secrets and for Mother’s Day for the same group. I enjoy creating using layers and different elements, and this one has both.
P.S. I’m still trying to perfect the lighting for my photos.
I hope you all had a lovely mother’s day!
Funfull Creating 