More Clearly Collage

Today's post demonstrates how I added my own touches to the suggested cards from the "Clearly Collage - All Occasion Card Kit" from Paper Wishes.   I found that I wanted to re-arrange the elements for the front of the card so that the clock on the inside appeared to line up with the clock on the outside.  This meant moving the tag to the other side of the card and putting it at an angle - which I liked better.  Then I wanted to focus attention on the change from caterpillar to butterfly, so I added an arrow (cut from an extra label) that points to the caterpillar on the front.  On the inside, the only changes I made were to rearrange the butterflies a little bit.

The change I made to this one was to add some at the top of the card.  In the kit, it was designed as a square card.  I don't like making square cards very often since they require extra postage to mail.  So, in this case, instead of cutting the whole card down to make a square as they suggested, I simply cut the FRONT of the card down, leaving the back intact.  I finished the card in much the same way as they suggested -- simply covering the whole of the inside page with the gray (rather than just the square part), changing the position of the stars a bit, and adding an extra star on the inside page.  I then stenciled the word "Congratulations" with dimensional paint (on the part of the card that stuck up above the square part on the inside page) so it showed above the square front of the card.