yet another crafty "thing".....

The tiny pansies in my last entry reminded me of these cards. It never ends once a person begins with crafty "stuff". There are soooo many fun things to try and even if you only do it once, sometimes it just has to be done. Just to see if you can do it. Have you ever saved and pressed flowers? Here is one to use some of the sweet little pansies, violas or bits and pieces of interesting greenery or other fun stuff you may find in your garden. (or the neighbour's) ... they'll never miss a few tiny leaves...













I bought some blank cards and envelopes... probably at Michael's... arranged some of my pressed flowers and leaves in positions that I liked...and put over some 3 inch wide matte tape. These are not from this year ..and now..I'm sorry to say I can't remember what the tape is called...but bet I got it from Michael's also. It is a bit wider than packing tape. The tricky bit is getting the tape situated when all the fly away bits do just that...fly away! The static just seemed to lift them off the paper !! arrgghhh! ...but...I did get several nice ones finished and sent them off as gifts. I saved a couple for me...













My Mom bought me two cards that she saw in a Victoria book and card shop. Just as she thought, I wanted to try making my own. They were my prototype...

the first two are mine and this is one of the originals.













original in the centre..mine on either side.