Crafting a Summer Card

Summer Card Crafting
Simple Homemade Summer Cards
Materials: Card Stock, Paper Stash, Item Stash, Computer Card Program

I have made cards for the grandkids. Calling them “Summer Cards” at this point in time is wishful thinking! Yesterday and today 50’s and rain! The first of June is only 3 days away!
The front cover is a collage, Found a different “summer” image for the base of each card, then added other summery elements; cutouts, transfers, and silk flowers. Each card got a girl or boy figure, depend on the grandchild it was for.

“Kickback Relax” inside the cover used a computer greeting card program for the words. Printed out what was needed then pasted them on the pictures of sleeping animals. The pictures came from my “Paper Stash”  this particular one from a newspaper.

“Its Summertime….”, again computer generated, cut out and pasted on the message page. The fairies from a sticker book and the feathers go back 20 years to Steve’s Cub Scout leader days.

“Logo” on the back came from a recently discovered part of the computer program. If you have a greeting card program on your computer and you haven’t explored it, Do So. Think outside the box, and don’t be afraid to experiment.

If it doesn’t work DELETE-DON”T SAVE. Work with “from scratch” or “blanks” it then becomes your original design - and there is a great deal of satisfaction in giving “Handmade”. Spend some time collecting your paper stash-Sales Fliers-Catalogs-Old magazines-newspapers-old photos-etc…. Then when that need to create hits-then the fun can starts!

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