March Swaps 2024

This month's materials swap is "Spring", and this is the card I made.  Made from the following materials:

This started with a card base and envelope.  The focal, frames, and sentiment are from Hunkydory's Pop-a-Topper called Fabulous Florals.  I added a piece of AS (HD's Adoreable Scoreable foiled card stock).  A piece of gold foiled card stock, two pieces of glimmer paper (blue & green) and foiled acetate.  To that I added a small paper doily, a piece of ribbon, and a small baggie of little flowers, sequins, and other misc little bits.  

My Card:

As you can see, I created a center step shaker card with a bit of a border created with a strip of gold foiled card stock and blue glimmer paper.  The foiled AS makes a great backdrop.  Using the focal die cuts & frame - along with a small piece of acetate - I created a shaker focal.  This was matted on a doily and a gold foil mat - die cut with a die from Card Making Magic's Octagon Box Kit.  I added a ribbon bow and a cluster of little flowers from my stash with greenery die cut from the green glimmer paper using Card Making Magic's 5 x 7 Card & Box Set. 

Materials Swap - Swap Partner's Materials:

The white piece of card stock is a deeply embossed basket weave pattern.  As you can see, there were also a lot of die cuts.  Here's the card I made using these materials:

I wanted a bow to hold the bouquet together, but there was no ribbon included and the only card stock I had was from the dark green piece I'd cut from the inside hidden part of the mat behind the white background.  So, that's what I had to use.  I stamped and die cut the ribbon using a stamp and die from Stampendous sets called Pop-up Kitties.

Card Swap Card sent (amphibians):

 

The background for this fun card was printed from a digital download and matted with green glimmer paper.  The frog die cut set (frog, lily pad, lake splash) was from Elizabeth Crafts - all die cut in white card stock and then inked around the edges.  I matted the splash on white card stock.  The sentiment was a cut out from another download.  The greenery is all die cut from green glimmer paper (dies from Card Making Magic - 5x7 Card & Box, Ultimate Number and Overlay, & ???).