Quilts and Cards: January 2021

Tuesday, January 19, 2021

Welcome to 2021!

Welcome to a new year! Hope it is a better one for all of you than 2020 was. We in New Zealand have been very lucky, mainly thanks to a government that was prepared to make the hard calls quickly to prevent what could have been a quite disastrous situation. Other countries have not fared so well and we hope that with the development of vaccines and better responses, things may start to get better.

On a creative note, I was going through my photos yesterday and found some cards I made recently!

These cards were samples for my Creative Card Making group that I take at the local library once a month. The group made up the cards then we donated them to a charity for people on their own at Christmas.

This is the unicorn card I made for my delightful granddaughter for her birthday last year. I cut the centre of the card using an svg file and my Cricut. The front of the card was made with CTMH papers and stamps.

More cards later this week!

Hope you have a great day!

Favourite Tips

If you need a brad of a particular colour and don't have one, check to see if you have some embossing powder of the colour you want . Rub embossing ink on the top of the brad, then dip it into the embossing powder then heat set it. Use tweezers or a clip peg to hold the brad while you heat it.
When you are stitching on cards, make sure you are not sewing over the top of DS tape! The needle gets gummed up and won't lock the threads underneath.
Use zip lock plastic envelopes for smaller pieces of card offcuts that accumulate when making cards. Have one envelope per colour and periodically go through and trim up so they are ready for use on another card.