Mixed Up Saturday/Fractured Card Technique

 

The moment you realise your craft supply 

Collection could qualify you to open a shop!!! 

My Mother's Day card from Sophie

Good Saturday Morning Ladies, 

I hope that the sun is shining where you are and that you are all having a relaxing weekend.  Our main job is treating the wood for our raised beds. Then working out where they will all go, I think that will a job for Paul though, I could put a hat on and a high viz vest and go out with my clipboard pretending to be overseeing things! 🤣😂               However if it's raining I will be inside!

Above you can see the hilarious but brilliant digital Mother's Day card that Sophie designed for me, she also made a copy into a card, the colours are brighter on this copy though,  I love how she has included everyone in the family, even Milo & Bella.  Your cards always make me smile Soph, thank you so much xxx

Fractured Card Technique 

I love the design of these cards, they look like you have to sit and measure all the little pieces of patterned paper so that they sit with equal amounts of border between each one, far too tedious to be fun!!  But it's much simpler than that....

I started with my usual card base:  4 1/4  X 5 1/2 inch, I added a piece of 'Flight & Harry" patterned paper 1/4 inch smaller than the card base.               To prepare for 'fractured ' part I added a 2 inch square of white card to my card base, I made sure it was in the centre and stuck it down.

Cut 4 strips of card around 5 inches long & 1/4 inch wide (I cut mine slightly less than that as I thought the looked too thick). Try it and see what you think. 

Now the magic starts 😉, take one of the strips and line it up with the corner of one side of the square,  then take the next piece and repeat on the second side.....

Work your way around the square, making sure you glue the strips enough that there adhere to the edge of the card.

Take your scissors and trim the over hanging strips and there you have your basic Fractured card, all that is needed is the focal point and sentiment...

There you go, see I told you it was much easier than you imagined!

You can use this method and have your card landscape instead of portrait.   You can even use other shapes for the focal point,  a hexagon would need 6 strips,  the basics are exactly the same though.  

Also the style of this card works with this weeks challenge too !! 

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Please let me know if you need any further information, my greatest joy comes from helping you.  😊 xxx

Maria's Craft Room

Oh Maria WOW !! Your craft room looks incredible, your desk is lovely,  it has so much storage and is perfectly placed to benefit from the natural light.  Your Billy bookcases look amazing too, I bet you were surprised to discover you had enough stash to fill all of those shelves!! It looks lovely,  if you are anything like me it will take you a while to remember where you put everything 😉                    You waited a long time for your on craft space, I'm sure Christian loves the transformation of his own room, especially knowing how much happiness it brings you. 

Thank you so much for sharing your craft room with us XXX 

I hope you ladies all have a lovely weekend,  

Love and hugs to all of you  

Sandra                                                                    xxxxxx