Letterpress Cards

These are a few of the cards I have made with the letterpress (my new toy) from QK. If you want to find more info and great cards, hop over to Paula Pascuals blog. Great fun to use, very easy, though a little messy! Basically it gives me the opportunity to make lots of the same card quickly, with a lovely print/deboss. Mostly I've just been fiddling, and playing, but these are a few of the cards I've made with it. managed to find some base card that is a good colour match for the soft, thick letterpress paper.

And here's a close up - you can see the textured effect of the debossing on the printed bit

And the flower with the 'thanks' plate.

Think this one was my favourite - in the post to my dad now.

Strictly speaking, not a letterpress card, but I made up a batch similar to this and have only just got round to photographing it! (star and sentiment PTI, background 'flourish' Stampin up)

*Snow*

This is my middle child - with 14 inch ruler.


As you can see, only 2 inches of it left.

The oldest - making a snow angel
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Me in hub's wellies - waaay to big for me, but mine are only short gardening wellies, so really weren't tall enough to keep the snow out.

And my little girl - her boots were 5 inches too short - but I didn't have anything else to offer her, so she just put up with them.

Even in the snow the boys just move too fast for taking many photos of them. Millie on the other hand, was definately struggling to get about in it with her little legs.

Birdy

This is something I've been working on for a little while. Made most of it before the summer, but the drill bit broke inside the little birdy while I was drilling it, and as I really liked my little birdy and wasn't prepared to consign him to the scrapheap, I had to find a way to dissolve the drill. Sulphuric acid was suggested, but thats nasty, nasty, nasty, especially with little people around, managed to find alum dissolves it, so set about a quest to get some - tried ordering from my local chemist - very helpful - but after a few months of them not being able to get it from their supplier I chased round the internet. Alum is cheap, postage on the otherhand was not always cheap, and I finally only got it just before Christmas. So my birdy went swimming in an alum solution over Christmas, and yesterday I finally put it all together.

The back is domed too, and has the same leaf texture, so could be worn back to front too!