Doodle on your card to add extra interest
This weeks card is quite simple but you can add extra detail and interest if you use a black pen to doodle details onto your card. In this instance, I started off with a dashed line around some of the patterned paper, then added extra doodles to the central flower.
Don't worry about your doodles being perfect, straight or neat - it is meant to look a little hand drawn and shabby, that's what gives it interest.
Follow the below link to find out how the card was made
You will need
- Pink patterned papers (I used some from a 12" scrapbooking pad called Soft Romance by Craft Sensations)
- White 5" square base card
- Fuchsia card
- Large Daisy punch (Mine was from Stampin up)
- Circular greeting stamp
- Small circle punch big enough to cut out your greeting
- Tiny fuchsia gem
- Black pen
- Black ink pad
- Glue and double sided foam pads
- Cut a piece of mottled pink patterned paper to 5" square and a pink flowery piece of patterned paper to 5" by 3"
- Tear down the right edge of the flowery piece of patterned paper
- Draw dashed lines around the none torn sides of the piece of flowery patterned paper and 3 X's at the bottom right of the mottled pink paper
- Glue the mottled pink paper to the base card and then glue the flowery paper to the left edge as per the below photo
- Punch out two large daisy's from the fuchsia card and glue them together at the middle, so the petals offset each other.
- Using black ink, stamp your greeting onto a bit of spare mottled pink patterned paper and cut out using the circle punch.
- Glue the punched circle to the middle of the flower and glue a gem in it's centre
- Attach the flower to the middle of your base card using double sided foam pads. You could leave the card like this but I continue to doodle further ...
- I curled the petals of the top flower forward and then drew smallish dashed lines around the petals of the base flower. I also put small black dots around the edge of the greeting circle. Again you could leave the card at this stage, but I tried further doodles .....
- Using the black pen again, doodle some scrolls on the right hand side extending from the flower
So did I take the doodling too far or not far enough? Where would you have stopped? It's so difficult to know but at the end of the day it's your card and it's handmade. Just enjoy doodling and creating unique cards.
