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Wednesday, 3 February 2010

Batch Card Making...


As some of you know I work in a school, and every big school holiday I try to make a batch of general cards to fill my box that lives in the staffroom!
This batch was of about 100 but a few of them were made into gift bundles for pressies!


All my batch cards are the same size and consist of a quick embellishment mounted on a die cut square of pretty patterned paper (usually K&Co).
So I start my die cutting loads of squares...scalloped of course!


Here is my little pile of scalloped lovelies...


Cos i am super tight with my yummy papers i also cut a smaller square out of the scalloped square slightly smaller than the matt that will cover it so i can use it for another project!


My little pile of squares destined to pe bunched or die cut for another project!


I then die cut a cream of white square to matt on top of my scalloped square as so...


And then i mount my embellishments on them, i tend to use mainly K&Co and tend to go by the rule that each embellishment must cost no more than 50p!


I then mount my toppers onto card blanks to match the cream or white matt that i have used and voila!
No pics of individual cards as i have kept these to blog periodically so you don't get bored of looking at them all in one go!


I just popped the finished cards into my cake stand to keep them organised, but thought they looked quite cute in there before they were popped into a cello bag and dragged off to the staff room!

Hugs
Lisa xXx

7 comments:

  1. Well done, Lisa - I'm sure they sell well x

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  2. They look lovely! Which die-cutter do you have and what die?

    I'd like to make some like that to sell for the place I study - they've got an expansion project going (more bedrooms and lots besides).

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  3. gosh you have been busy !!!!
    Have you ever checked out our craft blog before www.fiskarettes.co.uk We have a ink & stamping competition running at the moment and a 3 monthly DT call not to mention it is a place where UK crafters can share their work xxx
    Come and check us out x

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  4. Wow you have been busy and they do look wonderful.

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  5. Wow - I can just about make one card in a sitting! They are really simple but effective - thanks for showing them to us.

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  6. wow talk about busy!!! Don't they look fab.

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  7. what a great idea - and the best way to produce cards en-masse.

    Very inspiring

    Paula x x x

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