Over the last few weeks I have been sorting out my craft room and have found some boxes of cards I made about 20 years ago. These cards were made long before Stampin' Up came to the UK..
The cards brought back some memories of my early days of card making, so I thought I 'd share a few of them with you.
Maybe this post will bring back memories for some of you too.
Crafting products for card making was in those days very limited. The most popular products for card making were mulberry paper, peel offs, (as in the card above) pre- made toppers were popular, embossing was done using brass stencils, a light box and a ball tool. I remember how much my hand ached after an hour of embossing in this way.
Punches were of poor quality and most of them were tiny unappealing designs.
I remember trying to colour images with watercolours, pearlescent paint blocks, water colour crayons, felt tip pens, but the best option was Marvy Le Plume pens, but they were pretty expensive for a dye based pen, and to my mind, were not worth the money.
I always got terrible results when colouring images, so my stamps got packed away, not to see daylight again for over 15 years.
As I didn't have much joy stamping, I began making cards using things like wallpaper, cake decorations, purchased paper flowers, packing tape and anything I thought might look good on a card.
The planet card above is made from a wallpaper sample with a stamped sentiment (I made this one recently as an example for this post).
The card on the left is an old example of a simple card I made using printed packing tape, which I'd picked up in one of those cheapy stores.
