I have been busy making Valentine cards for my grandchildren. They don’t care but I find it great fun — until it isn’t.
What could possibly go wrong with some cute little Valentine cards. Well, let me tell you — it has been a comedy of errors.
First off I wanted to use some rub on transfers. They are so pretty and so easy (ha!). We have used alphabet rub ons before with kids school projects and now the arty ones look so much like watercolors that they are gorgeous. So I ordered some from Amazon. All pink and red, girly and yet some masculine stuff, sort of vintage —
Sort of garbage. I don’t recommend at all. At least the ones I bought. I learned a great lesson from this — Amazon may be fast but it isn’t necessarily great.
I messed up several panels, with the cutest images, and they got binned. I finally got them done but it was iffy at best.
As I have said I have been away from the activity for awhile so I had to reacquaint myself with my stash.
Oh. My. Gosh— I have a definite shopping problem. I keep going through drawers and it just keeps coming. I will never use all this stuff—
Yet, I needed some stuff that I just don’t have.
What might you ask? Space, My little short assistant (Bean) needs to get her sassy self over here and help me organize. I need to get rid of some of this stuff….I digress.
So, I finally got the cards together and I needed sentiments. I had recently bought some new stamps with lots of sentiments. Again, trash. They are all joined together, not separate like I thought they would be. And they don’t take the ink well. Bother.
Note to self — buy from a reputable company that you recognize.
Then, as I was trying to glue them all together I kept dropping the elements and getting glue all over — all over the cards, all over me — maybe having a tremor is going to make this more difficult. I finally managed to get that done without too much wonkyness.
I glued on a couple of little embellishments, called it done and took photos. Came down here to share with you and discovered that my phone didn’t actually photograph one of the cards so I will have to drag myself upstairs again to get that picture.
But, for now, here are my efforts —
What is next? A Graduation card. Oh, and I seem to have lost an entire palette of watercolor paints. Hmm….
Oh, I almost forgot —Bean, my daughter, her husband and a friend and HER daughter all did a college visit this weekend. Our family has a very long Aggie legacy so they decided to take Bean for a tour and here are a couple of picks. I think she might be abandoning her idea of NYU and realizing it is up to her to carry on the family legacy….we will see —
4 comments:
I think your cards look great! I love to make my own cards, sometimes they turn out great, sometimes not so much. I've been wanting to try some transfers, maybe I should reconsider. lol
Thank you! I am not giving up on the transfers, just buying them from someplace like Scrapbook.com or locally at Michaels or HL. I went back and looked at reviews of the ones I bought and they weren’t good so I think the issue was with these particular transfers. So, don’t give up! Just be careful what you buy!
I used to try making cards or even scrapbook pages decorated with those rub-on transfers. It was frustrating and I gave up. I think the cards you made look great!!
Thanks! I will try again but not with THOSE — it was so irritating having them get messed up — they are really thick and the plastic they are adhered to kept sticking really badly and tearing the panel so, yeah, I am done with those! Will try again with a different product
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