Tuesday 6 October 2009

Special Request


I was asked by a member of my choir to make a card for her daughter, with this specific wording and with this specific designer paper.
The paper is a free download from Canon. As you may have read in an earlier post, I have been having intermittent problems with my printer not being on speaking terms with my computer, it is also from time to time on a go slow and part prints a page then gives up. This happened with this particular piece of backing paper. A small strip was printed on one side of the paper before the printer spat it out. So I turned it over, put it back in the printer and tried again. It printed practically a whole A4 sheet the second time, before giving up, but it was sufficient for my purposes.
When it came to constructing the card I realised that I had a corner of the paper which was printed on both sides, so I couldn't resist folding it over to show the other side... it would have been a waste of ink otherwise wouldn't it!!
So here it is for Daring Cardmakers' 'We're Folding' Challenge, where there has to be some folding of sorts on the card. It is a similar design to one I made some time ago, with slight variations. The diecutting is Spellbinders and the image is from PSX. The sentiment is computer generated.
The sentiment was smaller than the rectangular Nesties I wanted to use, so I cut out the wording with the die, then moved the die-cut across a little and cut off a little more. I did the same with the scallop die, matching the scallops and cutting off about 2 of them. I do this with lots of Nesties which are not quite the size I need!
Useful tip?

12 comments:

  1. oooh what delish paper, I need and it's free - thanks for the link.

    Beautiful card, very elegant and nice one for the printing incident as has resulted in a fab card

    Victoria
    x

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  2. This is beautiful Chrissie and the paper is so pretty. I try not to mention my printer in our house as it hates printer friendly card etc!
    I hope you are having a good week.
    Clare x

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  3. this is such a beautiful card. I love the soft and pretty colours. Thanks for being Daring this week :)

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  4. beautiful!! I love the image, and love the gorgeous papers you have used! love it!!

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  5. Ingenious fold reasons! Lovely card, sure the choir friend wil be thrilled. Great tip. TFS!

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  6. Loved reading about how you got the paper fold by accident - great. thanks for the good tip on the cannon site have bookmarked it for future use.
    Linbyx

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  7. Super card Chrissie, love the papers.

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  8. A very elegant and beautiful card Chrissie. Thanks for joining in with DCM this week and for the useful tip too!

    Lynda xxx

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  9. Oh how frustrating but what a lovely outcome and I love the little fold over :o)
    Jackie xx

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  10. Lovely card, such pretty colours
    Thanks for joining in with The Daring Cardmakers this week

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  11. ALL YOUR CADS ARE GORGEOUS.
    Perhaps you can do a little tutorial on how you use the Nesties in this way ... I cant quite get my head around it and I want to try.
    Thanks & happy creating!

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Thank you so much for popping by, I appreciate your comments!
Thanks,
Chrissie