some cards from the past...

This card was made with a cuttlebug folder, a nestability, a stacked flower design, some ribbon, and a touch of crystal stickles. The flower is made from those cardstock sets that are perforated so you can easily punch out the flower pieces. They were designed to be stacked to give your flower embellishment some dimension in a paper tole fashion. I LOVE them for cards. They come in a variety of different styles and patterns (usually 3 different flowers on a sheet)...bronze outlined (like on my card), silver outlined and I've just recently spotted these sets in colour!


I made this card for Tom's birthday this past January. Sometimes I find it difficult to make a masculine card, but I decided that the diamond plate cuttlebug folder was the ticket. Tom loves old cars...he may not have one, but he loves the history of them all. I used a peel-off sticker set that allows me to place the outline peel-off sticker onto a piece of glossy paper that has been matched and coloured to that specific peel-off. Voila...a coloured vintage car sticker!



I used the micro-fine Glitter Ritz for this card. It was part of a 10 card set I made for Christmas gifts...20 sets altogether..yikes! It's a glitter that doesn't flake off because of the sookwang double-sided tape that you use to adhere the glitter. It also leaves a velvety texture after you "burnish" it (rubbing the glitter into the tape with your finger). Everything on this card is glitter. Sookwang tape comes in a number of different widths. So, you don't have to deal with cutting double-sided tape!

I took the top photo in the sun so you can see the glitter shine. The bottom photo gives you a better look. I punched out the shapes out of the tape paper that covers the sookwang double-sided tape and used them as masks. Then, starting from darkest glitter colour to the lightest, I started adhering the glitter to the tape accordingly. It is tedious and you have to be careful...but it makes for some awesome glitter cards in whatever design you want. You can even cut the sheets of double-sided tape in the cricut for letters, etc.

Oh, by the way, not too long ago, I had posted a number of photos of other layouts and cards on The Paper Passion Gallery. That was just before I jumped on the blog bandwagon. If you wanted to take a look at some other things I created, just head on over to The Paper Passion's Gallery and take a look under "rowena"

Thanks for stopping by!
~Rowena~