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I needed to make a birthday card for a teenage cousin and didn’t have a lot of time. I decided against embossing, fancy ink work, or rubber stamping and just used stickers and coloured pencils.

To make this card:

1. Take a standard card. I used a nice cream coloured one, and turn to ‘landscape’.
2. Using a ready cut frame (you can buy these or cut them out from card yourself if you are good at fiddly stuff!), attach 3D foam pads and carefully line up, and stick to the card at about the centre.
3. Now comes the really easy part just stick on: two corner stickers to the top corners (I used epoxy stickers), 3 flower sticks in the spaces allowed by the frame (as the flower stickers were larger than the frame they sat on top of the frame, which I think looks good), a Happy Birthday peel off (I used a cocktail stick to hold the peel off before positioning it), 5 equally spaced peel offs and a couple of tiny glitter flower sticks (place on the lower third of the card.
4. Colour in the spaces on the 5 equally spaced peel offs with coloured pencils (to match the flower stickers). Be careful and don’t press down too hard.

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As mentioned in a previous post I have been doing some more scrapbooking. I have been mainly working on an 8″x8″ album. Here I have used a picture of my late Grandmother when she was a young woman in the 1920s. I just love the cloche hat she is wearing.

To make this page:

1. Take a sheet of 8″x8″ card (in my case all the papers came bundled together in a kit so I didn’t have to search around for separate items, but there is no reason why you cannot do so if you wish), which tones with the photo you are intending to use. I chose a dark green.
2. Take another sheet of 8″x8″ card in a lighter tonal colour and carefully tear off the edges (again in my case this was already done for me, but the tearing technique is fairly easy and simple to do), and attach the torn card to the first sheet of card. Make sure you line the card up correctly so it does not overlap and is central.
3. As I was working with an old picture and do not have another copy I scanned the photo and printed it out on photo quality paper, having first edited the image in PSP to remove any smudges or marks, and also to check the colour and light etc. was suitable. Before you have a go at printing out photo images I suggest you do a test on an ordinary piece of paper cut to photo size until you get used to it. Also to give the photo a ready made mat make sure you allow a white border around the image before scanning - the preview function on your scanner will make this easier to judge the size of the image.
4. Using double sided tape I attached the photo to the sheet of card. You can see I put it on at a slight angle because I wanted it look like the image was being held in place by the flower corner stickers I attached over it. As I used a white peel offs and didn’t want them to ‘vanish’ on the white part of the photo, I took a gold gel pen and drew around the outside of parts of the stickers to give a nice highlight effect.

I left any journalling ( any text written or typed onto the page), and title off to keep the page simple. I think this can be quite effective.

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