BLUE FLORAL GET WELL SOON CARD

GET WELL SOON

Marilyn has assembled an interesting variety of materials to make this simple but effective get well card.

The main focus is a Sparklelight sticker of cornflowers - much prettier in reality that on the screen.  Both it, and the Japanese-style background paper are mounted on blue card.

Marilyn has coloured some peel off stickers with a permanent marker so that they match the theme, and distributed them over two tags, tied together with blue and white twine.

A folded white doily under the sticker co ordinates with the Regal base card and the tags as well as leading the eye across the card.

Once again, this is a great design to adapt with your own themes and materials.

WHAT A HOOT BIRTHDAY CARD

WHAT A HOOT

And yes.....we do requests.....
I mainly post cards made on Regal Card blanks, but we had a special request to put this one up and here it is!!

The base is folded corrugated card but the tags are made by Regal, and all the other "ingredients" are available in the shop at the time of writing.

The owls are from a sheet of A4 paper and have been assembled as mini paper tole, by cutting out a few of the bits and mounting them with foam tape on top of the base image.

The starts at the top are split pins and the wording is made with Kaiser letter stickers using my first principle of using letter stickers - if you don't think you'll get them straight in a sane time frame, go for a deliberate "casual" look!!  The angle of the photo does make the card look a bit askew, though, but I promise that is OK in real life!!!

Hangsell Tag Card

As some of you might be able to tell, this is not a real card - just a computer "mock up" to see how one of the new hangsell tags from Regal would go as a card topper.  I think the answer is "quite well", and as we can chose from white, ivory or natural there will no doubt be some real cardmaking happening in the not to distant future. (I've resisted saying "its on the cards").

The size of this card is, however, based on Regals larger white square base card so you could easily recreate something similar in the real world.  The bird on the tag is a photo but could easily be replaced with a diecut or stamp.
The greeting could be stamped with a scarlet Versacube and you could substitute Bazzill and patterned paper for the red, black and white.  Not forgetting, of course, the hang sell tag, which is real and availabe now.
 If you wanted to give a gift of some jewellery it could be secured to the tag and used as part of the card.  The natural colour would also look great with some vintage buttons attached, perhaps on a card base covered in fabric.  (Double sided Jac paper is a good way to do this).  Lots of ideas........

REGAL TAGS

TAG HAPPY BIRTHDAY CARD

Tags are really useful things......quite apart from their obvious use in packaging and pricing, they are a great way to decorate the front of a card or a nice little stand alone project to add to a special gift.

Regal has just released some new tags to add to their already large range.  We can now buy large white tags in the shape shown right (in Botany) and below in packs of fifty, which is a great way to start a project - you can get straight into the fun bit of decorating without having to fiddle around trying to cut a suitable decorative tag base.

The card on the left is a regal square card, with the front panel cut back a little to reveal a decorative strip underneath.  The same paper is used to decorate the tag.  The other example shows some very simple quilling - one layer on top of the other (you can get quilling papers and tools from Regal too!!)

QUILLED TAG

Regal have lots of different sizes and colours available on their website www.regalcraftcards.com.au.  Check them out!