These are for Jeanne's fun Free for All challenge - a one layer card plus embelishments. I hope these qualify as "cards". Let me explain.
I frequently make a card and when it is finished I look on the back and there is a big inky blob or even worse, I have stuck the front panel upside down!! To solve this I cut a piece of cardstock exactly the same size as the front. Place a 1/2" wide strip of double sided tape across the top of the new piece, now very firmly score just under the tape.
Stick the two pieces together and bend the back panel out gently where you scored and it will sit up perfectly. You can go one step further and punch a hole (through both pieces of card once they are stuck and scored), add raffia and make it look like a tag. That is what I have done here.
I made 4 of these panels for the mixed media challenge, then turned two into cards. I have written all the details here at the other challenge if you would like to find out how these weirdo cards started out.
Thank you for looking.
Date: Friday, November 7, 2014 GMT Views: 1338
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Registered: October 26, 2009 Location: Oakhurst, near Yosemite Nat'l Park. Posts: 46766
Fri, Nov 07, 2014 @ 6:27 PM
Susie, I love all your panels!! I hadn't heard of Izinks...you are becoming quite the enabler you know. I bought Dylusions because of you, now it looks like I "Need" Izinks!!! You are such a bad girl...goes along with being dirty you know,...heehee! Love your stenciling and all your colors!
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Registered: March 31, 2008 Location: Eastlake, OH Posts: 22598
Fri, Nov 07, 2014 @ 6:32 PM
These are just as awesome as your panels! You truly have mastered mixed media backgrounds and I love seeing them! You will have us all rushing out to collect Izinks! I think you started a trend. Gorgeous tags and your embellishments are fantastic!
Registered: May 23, 2003 Location: Ontario, Oregon Posts: 9431
Fri, Nov 07, 2014 @ 6:40 PM
So pretty! Your tag/cards are the best of both worlds - I, too, tend to goober the back sides of cards and end up doing an end run to salvage the front. Never occurred to me to make a tag - duh!!! Thanks for the inspiration. These are so fun & funky. Love the fairy-like feel you achieved with your creative stamped collage and the darling trinket charms. Delightful! TFS
Registered: June 10, 2011 Location: Canberra, Australia Posts: 7304
Fri, Nov 07, 2014 @ 10:07 PM
These cards/tags are beautifully done. Love all your bright colours and all the stencilling. I am learning lots of different techniques from your cards - each one is just so very different from the last. I always get a great giggle from your tales of woe that turn into little master pieces. Keep up the good work.
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Registered: January 19, 2014 Location: Central Indiana Posts: 90075
Sun, Nov 09, 2014 @ 8:02 AM
Oh Susie simply beautiful! I am always son drawn to your cards/tags. You do such beautiful designs. I am still trying to summon up the courage to use the new fun inks I got and keep looking at yours to get that courage. One of these days I will sit down and just do it. Thank you for sharing your very inspiring creations.
Registered: March 15, 2012 Location: Alabama Posts: 11018
Sun, Nov 09, 2014 @ 2:28 PM
Wonderful Susie!!! I have been going back and forth from the MIX and how you did the backgrounds and here how you finished them up! So cool!!! Your backgrounds are fantastic! These are great tag/cards and I especially like the metal charm you used Thank you for sharing your techniques!!!
Registered: April 1, 2012 Location: Rogers, AR Posts: 28836
Tue, Nov 11, 2014 @ 7:19 AM
How cute Susie! I like the mixture of all those colors and those ribbon things (I forget what they are called)...
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