Bring me sunshine!



I hope you're all enjoying a peaceful Sunday. We have sunshine!

I haven't made any Iris fold cards for a long while, so I thought I'd use up some yellow scraps and make a sun. I die-cut the circle in a square of card and used a pattern from this book. The yellow frame and the holographic card are also from the scraps box.

I also decorated the inside:




The brown birds are cut out from one of the scraps of paper I used for the sun.

I'm going to enter this into Jules's Snippet Challenge. I didn't use quite as much paper as I hoped - and now of course I've got lots of narrow strips instead of half-cut sheets!

Thanks for looking!

luv, Mags x

Comments

Irene said…
Hello Mags

What a fab way to use snippets. The yellow is so bright and cheerful, and the inside perfect.

luv
irene
xxxx
Sunday, September 11, 2011
Jules said…
Hi Mags

A fabulous snippet card .. .. it must have used up a fair few snippets and a fair few minutes doing all the folding and sticking too!!!

I know what you mean about being left with just smaller snippets .. .. that is why I have started to cut shapes from the smaller pieces (flowers, stars, leaves etc). It certainly speeds up the cardmaking process at a later stage too.

This looks great and I love the birds on the inside too.

Thank you for sharing your lovely snippet make.

Love Jules xx
Monday, September 12, 2011
coops said…
beautiful card mags.the birds are gorgeous and i love your fab iris folding ;D

xx coops xx
Monday, September 12, 2011
Di said…
Terrific card Mags - iris folding always looks so impressive and this is brilliant! Laughed about having snippet strips left :)) Di xx
Thursday, September 15, 2011
Carol said…
Great way to use your snippets Mags but know what you mean about the smaller ones lol. Carol x
Thursday, September 15, 2011
melsanford said…
Oh wow! This looks fab!!! Love 'n' hugs, Mel xx
Friday, September 16, 2011
Elizabeth said…
Hi Mags, great snippet use. I haven't got the patience to try something like this, but it's so effective. Like the birds on the back too - finishes it off beautifully. Thanks for visiting my blog and leaving such kind comments - they are much appreciated. Elizabeth x
Sunday, September 18, 2011
Debs M said…
ps did you know you have over 20 links to someone else's blog at the end of this post? you can block back links when you set up your post x
Sunday, September 18, 2011
Claire said…
Beautiful card,I'm sure it made a dent in the snippets, I love the inside, very elegant.
Claire xxx
Sunday, September 18, 2011
Made by Mandy said…
I used to do quite a bit of Iris folding and it is great for using left overs, trouble is you still create a lot more LOL.

Love Mandy xxx
Monday, September 19, 2011
Sarn said…
I've never done iris folding - it looks tricky! Your card is just lovely though!

Hugs, Sandra
Tuesday, September 20, 2011
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