Today I’m a guest designer for Honey Bee Stamps and I’m sharing a fun little card project that was on its way to being less cute than it ended up being, until I solved a design problem I was facing.
I had a tiny die cutting mishap, which happens, and I also had an orientation issue. Which also happens. Oh, and I smeared some ink unintentionally.
I’ll let you in on a little secret: I always make cards before I decide to film a video. Most of the time. But for this project, I decided to make the card as I went, filming all the while, but not knowing where it was going to end up. The cool thing is that I had to fix a few errors as well as make a perspective shift for the whole card. But sometimes, a simple move like making a landscape card instead of a portrait one is the difference between just okay and pretty frickin’ cute.
I think most of us prefer pretty frickin’ cute.
Here’s the video walking you through how I created the card and solved the problems:
Thanks so much for stopping by and thanks to Honey Bee Stamps for having me as a guest designer today!
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Juliana says
Hi Cathy, I love how colorful and simple your cards are, 100% my style. I wanted to mention that Nichol Sphor uses Zig markers very often, you should check out her channel, she gives great tips too.
Cathy Zielske says
BIG Nichol Sphor fan here! I love her!
AJ says
Hey Cathy, I do like that! I fancy those pens. ridiculous as I don’t have the energy for non-work crafting that makes mess these days. Most I’ve done recently is use some pattern paper to make wee boxes for biscuits. But I love how your card turned out!
Cathy Zielske says
Boxes for biscuits sound good to me!
Cheryl says
Thank you! I thought I was alone in my scissor snipping mishaps – clip the card all the time. You think I would get the hang of it by now, but sadly no. Love the card.
Cathy Zielske says
Same here! I’m HORRIBLE at it!
Tracey McNeely says
Cathy this is adorable! The one quarter turn did the trick, loved the video too! Are you sure we aren’t sisters? I have issues with snipping overhang on my cards all the time and yes on the Tim Holtz trimmer!
Cathy Zielske says
I will say that the BIGGEST surprise of my paper crafting life is that Tim Holtz trimmer… and I have two, the smaller one, which is good, but the bigger one? THAT is the one. It’s so great. I have never had such good cuts on anything, cards… scrapbook pages… or otherwise. I love it!
Teresa Doyle says
This is so sweet Cathy. I have to admit, I have made more than one detour on many cards (as I refuse to waste all of that time and hard work) so I make it work another way. You did an amazing job. As for the TH paper Trimmer, that has got to be my #1 fave tool in my craftroom!