This next series of cards combines two fun things - mini cards and swaps! Swaps can be fun for at least three reasons: 1) It's fun to get things in the mail! 2) They inspire you to do things you might not have done otherwise, and 3) You get new ideas as you see what you get from others in the swap. Miniature cards can be a lot of fun because even when you do special techniques and add details they don't take long and you can feel like you accomplished a lot.
Today's card is one of ten different 3"x3" cards I made for a swap - I'll be showcasing the others over the next few days. Since the swap was on the Paper Wishes Message Board (hosted by Hot Off the Press), most of the supplies used were theirs. All ten cards started with a printed card base from Hot Off the Press (sold in packs of 10 cards - quite inexpensive). This one came from this pack:
I found I could get two 3 x 3 cards from one of these printed cards.
The focal was made using the "Small Cupcake" mini stamp set from HOTP. I stamped it first on white card stock, colored it using sparkly gel pens and chalks, then embossed the edges with an embossing stylus. It still didn't have the dimension I wanted, so I stamped the image again, colored it, fussy cut pieces of it, and popped them up with foam tape.
Most of the cards I left blank inside, but for this one I fussy cut some candles from scraps of the card and glued them to the inside of the card:
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