I have some old papers in my 12 x 12 supplies that are kept beautifully in a proper scrapbook paper box and I decided to dig some out to make Mother's Day cards for my shop space. It seems to have taken over at the moment but I need to get established with selling slightly more commercial things before I think my mixed - media might stand a chance. Yes it's still early days but I want to do anything and everything I can to get it off the ground - any helpful comments are greatly welcomed.
I took some of the papers and cut to size scraping some white chalk paint round the edges.
The flower cards were cut from one of the 12 x 12 pages and I also gathered some shabby seam binding ribbon to use. One lot I left plain pink another lot I dyed using distress inks.
The little Mum brad is one of Tim's and I downloaded one of my own backgrounds into photoshop elements and added the word Mum to it then when it was printed out I punched it with a circle punch to fit the brad size. I had painted the brad with the white chalk paint to make it more shabby.
Here it is in situ.
I am using up a horde of flowers that I have bought over the past few years and hardly dipped into ....
.... and again I painted them with the chalk paint to achieve more of the shabby look.
These are two of the four I made.
Whilst I am sitting writing this post I am wondering if they are selling lol. I'll pop back and let you know at some point.
I hope your week is going well.
Thanks as always for stopping by - I so love having your company.
hugs Brenda xxx
