iLoveToCreate Retrofabulous All Occasion Greeting Card
Margot Potter
"These are your grandmother's crafts, ya gotta problem with that?"
Avalon has been taking advance placement and honors classes and her homework straw pile is epic! It's my birthday today, so I decided to whip up my own birthday card. I'm a Leo, we're kooky like that. You can make one too using layers of coordinating paper, trim and faux rhinestones and a vintage image sized with text added in photo editing software. I share my birthday with the ever so lovely and talented Miss Cathie Filian, so I used her fabulous Podgeables to add some dimension to the card! Aleene's Dry Adhesives make putting it all together as easy as 1-2-3!
Materials
Podgeables tag shape
Yellow and orange cardstock
Patterned scrapbook paper (I used Retro Collage from Michaels)
Patterned tissue paper
Genevieve Gail Felt Floral Ribbon Trim
3 large faux rhinestones
3 medium faux rhinestones
Aleene's Tacky Sticker Sheet
Aleene's Tacky Dot Roll
Tools
Paper cutter (largest cardstock layer is 5.5"x11"-folded to make card.)
Scissors
Bone folder
My image came from a vintage Vogue pattern from the early 1950s, Dover books is a great source for permission free images. I scanned, edited, sized, added the text Retrofabulous and printed it out. Decide how you wish to frame the image, trace and cut out.
Use a paper trimmer to cut yellow cardstock and patterned scrapbook paper in decreasing size. Cut ribbon to fit card. Use Aleene's Tacky Sticker Sheets to adhere image to front of acrylic frame and tissue paper to back of frame. Layer and stack remaining papers and trim using Tacky Sticker Sheets. Add faux rhinestones with Aleene's Tacky Dots!
