A hearty welcome to everyone who's hopped on over from Sals Special Spot, and if you've gotten here another way then I strongly recommend you hop on over and check her work out. I have been part of a card swap group Sal runs for about two years now and getting some of her work in the mail every month is like having 12 extra Christmas mornings a year.
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I love it when a few different pieces of inspiration come together and slap you in the face and this card is one of those for me.
It all started last week when a fellow crafter posted a photo of a card she'd made in a Facebook group I belong to, I wish she had a blog so I could link and show you. Basically she's embossed some regular tin foil from the kitchen with swirls then cut out the swirls into the shape of a dress. It sounds simple but looked so amazing. I instantly fell in love with the card but lacking both embossing folders and a steady hand with scissors any attempt I made was going to look like a 4 year old made it. I know my limits.
I then started thinking about what to make a particular special little girl for her birthday - she loves pink and stars.
Stars and tin foil - there's got to be something in that...
Finally I remembered the home-printed cards from the very, very early days of home computers, where after tearing the excess paper off at the perforations you folder the paper in half vertically and then horizontally to get the printed design to the front and the sentiment to the inside. That fold would create the perfect pocket for me to place some tin foil. At this point I almost ran to my crafting corner.
The basic recipe for my card is pretty simple - I cut some stars out of a piece of pink A4 card in the lower left corner of the page, I then cut another star (upside down, so it would be right way up in the end) in the upper right corner to get a star on the inside of the card too.
I chalked the edges of the stars to get a bit more definition. Folded the card in half horizontally and vertically, and inserted some tin foil I had scrunched up and smoothed out again into the pockets. Finally I sealed up the edges with washi tape and added a 'Happy Birthday' ribbon.
I'm definitely going to be playing with more tin foil, I'm thinking this would make an awesome technique for a Christmas tree card.
Blog Hop Q and A
What are you working on now?
I've just moved into a new house and I've finally got a dedicated crafting area. My project for the moment is digging out all the crafting supplies that have been languishing in boxes for years, remembering why I bought them in the first place and getting my space set up so when the inspiration strikes I can dive right in.
Why do you create what you do?
My first crafting love is scrapbooking, I love preserving memories, especially the everyday stuff, in a way that doesn't feel like sitting through a slide night .
How does your work differ from others in your genre?.
The projects on my blog probably don't showcase it but my crafting superpower is re-purposing materials. Old jeans into new bags, incorporating received cards into new ones (or Christmas Card Ornaments). I recently left a friends birthday party with some of the discarded wrapping paper because I had flash of inspiration looking at it.
How does your creative process work?
This post is probably a pretty good example, I see things I like and they bounce around my head until suddenly a few ideas collide and a picture jumps into my head of what I want to make. Of course, what I end up making and my first thought are usually miles apart. In my initial thought for this card it was made out of white card with black trim and dozens of tiny stars, but the tiny stars weren't going to showcase the foil the way I wanted, and the intended recipient absolutely loves pink so some changes got made along the way.
