A blog devoted to the cards I make in my tiny upstairs space. When my sister stays there, she calls it an "artist's garret". I'm not an artist, but am an enthusiastic cardmaker - hence the title "Cardmaker's Garret".
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Thursday 28 February 2019

Recycled Owl

The 52 Christmas Card Throwdown challenge wants:


I've saved quite a few of the store-bought cards I've received over the years and I do love recycling parts of them.  It's how I got into card-making in the first place!  I had received so many beautiful cards that I couldn't bear to toss in the recycling bin so I made them into new cards and bought one ink pad and one Merry Christmas stamp and it all snowballed from there!

This card is for a friend who loves owls - I make her an owl-themed Christmas card every year so I'd saved the image on this one specially for her (I only have so many festive owl stamps!).


I trimmed the owl image with an inverted scallop die, cut a mat using a blue-silver shimmer cs and the next largest inverted scallop die, layered it on off-white cs that I stamped with the sentiment, and then used a gold shimmer card base.

I need to do more of this as I have lots of lovely store-bought cards I can use.





Supplies:
Stamps - Rosie's Roadshow sentiment
Ink - Vivid Cobblestone
Paper - gold and blue-silver shimmer cs, off-white cs, owl image cut from commercial greeting card
Size - A2
Accessories - Nesties inverted scallop dies



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8 comments:

  1. Marcia Hill28 February 2019 at 15:28

    This is a FABULOUS card Susan!! And what a great way to recycle store bought cards!! My mom is a owl lover and would love this card too...think I'll have to forward it to her! :0)

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  2. Christine Alexander28 February 2019 at 19:29

    So glad you kept this to recycle, it's such a beautiful image. I'm sure your friend will love it :)

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  3. Loll28 February 2019 at 22:24

    This is so beautiful Susan. Your friend is going to love it. The double framed inverted scallop is just perfect for your beautiful owl image. xx

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  4. Bonnie1 March 2019 at 15:43

    This is a beautiful owl! I can see why you couldn't toss it. It makes a beautiful new Christmas card for your friend.

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  5. Mac Mable2 March 2019 at 07:01

    Wonderful card and fabulous recycling x The owl is striking x.

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  6. Brenda in IN2 March 2019 at 08:15

    I'm sure the original was nice but this is just beautiful. I love the inverted mats and the gold is a nice Christmas touch. The owl image is so pretty. A great way to recycle your cards.

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  7. AlisonC2 March 2019 at 08:31

    It's a beautiful image and I'm sure your friend will love it. Too good to throw. I started stamping to frame my photographs and make them into cards. I almost never do that now and it has certainly snowballed! Thanks for joining in at 52CCT

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  8. Trina P.3 March 2019 at 17:30

    Good thing you didn’t throw this away... it’s beautiful. Love the inverted scallop die. xx

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