I dunno why I'm so proud of these 3 cards but hubby Mike was sorting through some old papers yesterday ready to throw out the recycled paper. He came across an old calendar from 2008 that my daughter Laura had given me. It had some lovely pressed flower images on the pages that are slightly raised, so look like the original! Anyway, amazingly a thought popped into my head and I said 'Keep it, as I can use the pictures to make some cards'. Mike looked at me with one eyebrow cocked as if to say 'bet it sits up there for another 2 years'! lol Wrong.... I got to them that very afternoon and here's what I produced.....
This one I placed on orange base card and found some orange with red swirls paper and stamped all round the edges with a border punch.
I Cut around the flower but because there was a few lines of writing near to it which needed to be kept out, I think it does have an odd shape to it! I then placed it on the same paper. I cut out an oblong border from a plain orange card around it and added two little orange butterflies. I then finished off with a heart motif which had some little peach and white flowers and the words 'I Love You' on it.
This base card was also orange to which I added a peach polka dot paper that I had punched out the corners. I then cut around the flower picture card which is peach with orange/red flowers, with wavy scissors and placed that on top with foam pads.
I then added an orangey/red butterfly decoupage motif that had one amber gem and two pink ones. this one has a little saying at the bottom - ' Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished'. - Lao Tzu. Simple but effective, I thought!
This one I picked out a yellow base card and placed a lime green and white paper on it. I placed the flower picture which has a yellow background with a green vase and dark yellow flowers, on the white part so it bordered it. I added a strip of the green paper to the left hand corner and then a little green and yellow tag with a string bow on it, then an amber and green butterfly gem. The saying on this one reads.. ' Look deep into nature and then you will understand everything better'. - Albert Einstein.
So I'm off to see what I can do with the rest of them now!