Use up a magazine #3

Today’s episode of my use up a magazine series has four finished cards … and the next episode should finish off the full batch I prepped for with another five! And that is because I did a one sheet wonder with one of the pieces of paper in the kit. Here is the plan I made – it doesn’t quite go across a full width of A4 because I know that the magazine page would be a rough edge at one side where I tore it out and that way it wouldn’t be a problem to make it narrower.

So as with all in this series I’ve videoed the process so check out my YouTube channel.

I decided to try and keep things easy for myself by using the same focal image for all the cards – the hummingbird. So I stamped all the birds and coloured them all as one thing and then cut them out – this made the assembling part of the cards easier. I did colour them in different ways though to make them a little different and enjoyed putting some different techniques to the test.

Card one I went in with some additional embossing on the background using the stamps from the set and the splatter embossing technique. I also distressed the edge of the panel as it was the fab Kingston Crafts cardstock with the white core. Always love distressing this cardstock.

Card two was super simple – two 6×6 cm squares mat onto the dark purple cardstock and raised up on foam tabs for dimension.

Using the sentiments from the printed kit is also helpful to keep it simple!

Card three I went back to the embossed background with the sentiments – although admittedly covered most of it up – I also went a little crazy with gold embossing powder and the gold foiled cardstock that is the mat for the panels. Shiny! ✨

The final one I did do fussy cutting to the image to get rid of the white border and also added in the flower. As this one I had coloured using prismacolours I also added in more pink and some purple so it worked with the papers better.

It was so much fun making these and I know the final five will also be easy to put together as the papers are cut, the focal image is coloured and cut – they just need to be assembled- although obviously I sometimes make that a little more challenging by adding to the background a little more! You’ll have to wait and see what I come up with!

I’m finding this series a good challenge at the moment to think creatively on how I might put something together and make the most of the kit rather than always grabbing for other supplies – you never know though, I may end up teaming this kit with other supplies as the series goes on!

Happy crafting!

Catherine