Saturday 27 March 2010

The Cheats Diamond Spring Card

I'm really enjoying making different card shapes and styles. I watched Create & Craft the other day and saw some fab card bases but nearly  fainted at the price! So I decided that Google would be my friend for the day and that I'd see if I could find an idiots how to guide! Well as you can see I was sucessful and found this fab tutorial. I initially made the card using basic A4 cardstock, but then decided that the card wasn't quite big enough for my purpose, and as I didn't want to use my lovely 12 x 12 card to make a 6" square card that I'd either have to go shopping or come up with an alternative plan.

After thinking about it and studying the card, I thought that maybe I could use a 6" x 6" premade card base. Guess what? It worked! So I have one fab card base made in less than 2 minutes - result!

As usual I spent ages faffing around trying to decide on my layout. Finally I decided that I'd try and follow this sketch:


As you can hopefully see, I have rotated and shrunk the image. The card looks a bit wonky in picture, it's not, it's just my bad photgraphy! Also, I'm still struggling to find the best way to use flowers on my cards, but I hope this works. Any hints or tips will be gratefully received.

Anyway, far too much waffling from me, so here it is, my cheats Diamond Spring Card:
Materials:

Image  - Simply Cards & Papercraft freebie, coloured using Promakers

Frame - White cardstock coloured with Promarkers, die cut with Nellie Snellen MFD003

Papers - MME freebie

Flowers - from stash

Ribbon - from stash coloured with Promarkers

I'd like to enter this into the following challenges:

Inspirational Card Sketches

Passion for Promarkers

Crafty Cardmakers

Cute Card Thursday

Creative Card World

11 comments:

  1. Absolutely gorgeous! The colours you have used are stunning and that image is so cute!

    Thanks for joining us over at Creative Craft World.

    Sarah DT

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  2. Hi Claire, what a pretty card. Love the image and the papers are gorgeous. Thanks for your tips on making a quick alternative to the spring card and thanks for joining in with my challenge over at PFP this week. Hugs, Denise x

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  3. Lovely card - thanks for the tutorial link, another one to have a go at!!!!

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  4. That looks fab thanks for the link

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  5. Looks great - love the frame. Hugs Annexxx

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  6. Great card, love your colours and thanks for the linkx

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  7. I love you card. the colours are glad you joined us at crafty cardmakers

    Lv toria

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  8. such a pretty card, well done and thanks for playin with us at crafty cardmakers xx

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  9. What a clever design and great image! Fab!
    Thanks for coming to play at Crafty Cardmakers x

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