Friday, 15 November 2013

Left over metal, ribbon and paper and viola!

Hello everyone I hope you are all well.  
Its getting really chilly here in the UK, proper scraping of the car windscreen time!!

When its chilly outside I don't feel as guilty about squirrelling myself away in my craft room (the smallest room in the house and therefore the warmest!!).

A friend is 50 in a couple of weeks so I thought I would make her a special card. 


The card is stamped in versamark to create the watermark effect and I used similar pieces from my scraps box (seriously...HOW does that box hold this much?!) to stamp the saying and mount it.  I used fabric dyes to dye a tag and then using my tiny attacher to staple some leftover ribbon (it was really thick ribbon, but only a couple of inches long, so I cut in half along the length so it fitted through the hole in the tag easier).  

Ferreting around in my box I also found a third of a metal tube (I know, I literally chuck everything in this box, leftover fabric scraps, off cuts of paper...basically anything too small to put away...but as we know a lot of us crafters are hoarders, so I CANNOT chuck out something that can be used again....those of you who know me from WOYWW crops will know I am the one who actually went through the bins on everyones desk...well, other peoples rubbish is SO much more interesting!!).

With this tube I flattened it out and dyed it with alcohol inks before die cutting leaves out of it.
There you have it, a card for next to nothing (shh...don't tell the recipient it was so cheap!!).

I am entering this in the playground at the snippets challenge here

Why don't you pop over and see some of the fabulous creations, all made using up some snippets-genius.

Happy crafting

Kyla

4 comments:

  1. Welcome back Kyla! What a brilliant card - it's totally fabulous. I especially love the leaves and how you made them - you really are a right little squirrel :)

    Hugs, Di xx

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  2. This is great, love those leaves!

    Lucy x

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  3. Lovely...those leaves are superb!

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  4. Love this card Kyla! I think all us crafters are crafty with the recycling! (Sounds better than rummaging through rubbish!) Genius with the tube for leaves!
    Hugs
    xx

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