My First Card

Ok Folks...  I took the plunge and finally did my first card.  It isn't

perfect.  I made many mistakes.  First the frame, I didn't align it

correctly, so I used a gold leaf pen to go around the border to hide the

white paper underneath.  The next thing, I do not feel the colors contrasted

enough.  But I tried to fix it up the best I could.

I used a patterned paper and covered the card stock..  It was a pattern of

white roses.  Then I used my Cricut Expressions and cut out a frame that I

got from Penny Duncan's web site / blog.  I used gold leaf pen to outline

the card and outline the words Happy Birthday.  I then took some of the left

over rose paper and use my flower paper punch and cut 3 flowers and glued

them onto the frame.  I used my gold leaf pen to do the flower centers.  I

then took brown water color blendable marker and outlined the entire frame

to try to make it stand out a tad and create some contrast.  I quilled 3

scroll hearts and 6 leaves to add detail.

Oh well..  Not great but not too too bad I guess for my first attempt at a

greeting card.