Saturday, August 15, 2009

365 Cards Day 168 - A Touch of Toile


The challenge today at 365 Cards is to use toile as the background. Now, my family may beg to differ, but, as a newbie to card making, my supplies are somewhat limited. I had no toile paper! I did have some wallpaper sample books to turn to... and here is what I came up with.

The background paper is stitched to the cardstock- I have used wallpaper on a few cards and the glues that I have never seem to be sticky enough. I just got this new Martha Stewart border punch (double scallop) at Michael's and I was itching to use it, lol. And the metal embellishment is from the dollar store, there were five in the package! I am a dollar store junkie. There are not many places to shop for craft supplies in our small city so I find the dollar store to be a great source! In fact, my kids call it the $20 store :) .


Oh yeah, I almost forgot! I made these cute little cards yesterday- also found the adorable bubble stickers at the dollar store! I ran the cardstock through my Cuttlebug with the circle Quickutz (there were two different size stickers in the package). And the sentiments were from a paper stack that had a few alphabet die cut pages. I popped them up on foam squares and voila! I think they are so sweet- and so easy!

It is gonna be a scorcher here today (34 degrees C)!! That means beach allllll day.

Have a great one, and I hope it is as nice a day where you are!!!

9 comments:

  1. Lovin' your card - that edging is just perfect!

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  2. The toile card is amazingly beautiful! The black and white are really striking. And those birthday cards are totally adorable!

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  3. wow! i love this! great idea to turn to your wallpaper books - when we crafty girls get going, nothing is safe (wallpaper, fabric, who knows!). great job with today's challenge!

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  4. nice!
    I hope I nailed mine like yours! :)

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  5. very pretty!! and how cute are thoses bubble cards?! :)

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  6. Very nice toile card. The birthday cards are awfully cute too. I love our Dollar Store...your kids are right, by the time you get out of there it is the $20 store!!! You can go in for one thing and come out with 20!

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  7. Welcome to the world of crafting from one newbie to another! Your cards look great! Looking forward to watching you grow!

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  8. That toile card is so pretty, Chrissy! (and your birthday cards are bright and fun!)

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  9. Those window cards with the bubble stickers are SO cute! I love it!
    Thank you so much for your very kind comments on my blog!

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