Made my First Cards in our Brand New Home

Hi my friends! Today is a long post as I am soooo excited, so happy today to announce that my husband and I finally purchased our 1st and Forever Home!!

If you’ve been following me for a few years, then you know how badly I’ve wanted to move out of apartments and all the suffering I went through those years including developing PTSD due to terrible neighbors who deliberately hurt me. It’s been both my hubby and my dream to purchase a home and we thought at times we wondered if it would happen. We are both so grateful, humbled and super excited to start this new chapter in our lives. And, the healing for both us begins. If you want the full story, click here.

It’s Time to Craft

So, after getting my craft space set up, I was itching to create again! To get my creative juices going, I turned to YT! Because I injured my arm and hip, I don’t have all my strength back yet so I opted to take help from Pink Fresh Studio’s “In the Meadow ” washi tape and die set from their collection. I’ve made so many cards with this set, you can check some of them out here. All I had to do was pull off the washi tape onto white cardstock and die cut the floral pieces out.

I made 2 cards, one has a pop up frame feature. Dawn Wholeslagle made a pretty card with the pop-up frame card feature here and this was my inspo for one of my cards. Both of them use Ellen’s Essentials Nested Arch die set. To make the pop up frame feature, I trimmed a sheet of cardstock from 8-1/2″ x 11″ to 5-1/2″ x 5-3/4″. From the left side, I scored this at 1/4, 3/4″ and 1/2″.

Then I flipped the cardstock over and scored again on the opposite side with the same dimensions. Then I folded those scorelines like an accordian. I then trimmed down another sheet of cardstock to A2 size which fits perfectly in the center of my pop-up frame, this will be my panel.

I took one of the arches and die cut the pop-up frame as well as the panel. This way I could decorate the panel with the washi tape florals as well as on top of the pop-up frame. One of the things I love about this nested arch die set is it cuts out the arches and borders for each size and I used all of it for my cards!

Check out this post too → Borderless Shaker Card with KSCRAFT Mug Die Set & Sequins Mix

I tried to frame my card with as many florals as I could, I even cut out a few of the leaves to make the florals fit the card. And you can see some of them go off the card! For my sentiment, I used Simon Says Stamp’s “Hibiscus” stamp set and after stamping it , I die cut it out. Then, I glued it to a piece of acetate and taped it behind of the pop up frame with double sided tape on each end of the sentiment. 1st card done! I love how that sentiment floats on the card!

2nd Card

For my 2nd card, I ended up with a bunch of the washi tape florals left so I filled up a 4″ x 5-1/4″ panel with as many as I could. I glued 3 arch borders together and 3 arches together to build dimension. This time, I stamped my sentiments, die cut the main one out and glued it above the secondary sentiment. I’m not sure which card I like best, they’re both so pretty!

It felt so good to create again! Once my strength is back, I can begin ink blending, die cutting, stitching, alcohol-inking and whatever other medium I want to use. This is my craftspace now and I can do whatever I want. Dreams do come true and Freedom is such a blessing from God!

Thanks for Reading!

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