Welcome back to the craft room and today’s Flashback Friday Card Share post. Ya know how sometimes a new technique is so exciting that you just have to put everything else aside to try it? That’s exactly what happened one evening in July of 2011. Even though I didn’t have the exact supplies, I dug around in my craft stash and found something that worked perfectly. While in that creative roll, I even completed another card with a flower that had been waiting a whole year to shine! Let me show you what I created.
Cards to Share
The first card features a technique I discovered online called Streaky Glass by Amanda Corbet. You can find her tutorial on her blog, Krafting Kreations
I started by punching out a heart shape and covering it with a thick layer of Crystal Lacquer. Since I don’t own reinkers, I grabbed my alcohol inks instead. Using Butterscotch and Cranberry, I added a drop of each and used a pin to swirl the colors together.
Here’s a close-up of the heart:
To finish the card, I pulled out my brand-new Score-Buddy and added a few decorative score lines on Gina K’s heavy base weight cardstock. It was tricky to capture them in a photo, but I staggered the lines by about ½ inch each to create extra interest. I liked the clean, simple look, so I didn’t add much more.
The second card was something completely different for me, featuring a HUGE flower! I had made the flower about a year earlier using the Tattered Florals Alterations die by Tim Holtz. Each layer was inked with Distress Ink (though I can’t remember which colors I used). Because the flower was so large, I wasn’t sure how to use it—so it just sat in my basket until last night.
For the sentiment, I die cut a Fancy Tag Nestabilities shape and stamped a birthday greeting in Tuxedo Black Memento ink. Looking back, I should have chosen heat embossing, because the ink faded into the paper.
Thank you for joining me for today’s Flashback Friday Card Share post. Once again, I noticed I left out some details in the original write-up. For the second card, I had actually stamped the sentiment on shimmer cardstock from DCWV, which explains why the Memento ink looked so muted. Fourteen years later, I don’t think heat embossing would have helped much after all!
I’m curious—how often do you look back on your past projects and wonder if a different technique might have worked better? I find myself doing that quite a lot with these Flashback Friday cards. Thanks for joining me on this little trip down memory lane. If you’re looking for more inspiration, check out my Birthday Card projects. I’ll be back soon with another crafty share—see you then!
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