Day one Basic Grey journaling cards

There are lots of bits and pieces that turn up at the shop that i have to get my hands on straight away. THere are some that i look at that i say 'hmm that is gorgeous' but dont buy as i know that i will never use them ( yep i can be restrained sometimes!!!) And there are some that i look at and think WOW i need to find a use for them.... but they are a bit more than i wanted to spend.

THese are such things...

They come looking like this...

What are they...They are journaling cards with transparencies. And they are £4.75.
They look like this when you get them out of the packet...

and this is what they look like when they are put together.

Gorgeous huh!!! ( sorry about the bad light it is daytime as i am writing this but the day is horrible and dark and raining!!!)

I spent a while thinking about how to use these. THe problem is there are alot of them, too much to put on a page and if you are like me you wouldnt be able to put them all on a page even two so you would have some left over. So why buy them???? well i will show you...

THe way i did this was to turn them into cards.

This is simple, quick and easy as they are already mostly decorated and you dont have to do much to them.

I made this one first...
Here is how to make it...
The size of this journaling card is about14cm across and 14cm down.


I cut out two circles from some of the Lemonade pattern paper line. One bigger than the other and put it into the centre of the journaling card. I added brown ink round the edges and then added faux stitch lines.

I then made some flowers... the first one i made had these components on them...
I added them all together. I also added another flower set made with the smaller flower punch that i used in the photo above...

I then placed the transparency part of it over the journaling card and adhered. I added the little gems round the edges which i used to cover up the glue dots. I always use wet glue to adhere gems but just make sure you give them time to dry when adhereing them onto the transparency as they will slip until they are set firm...

I then turned my attention to the back of the card. As this is not a normal card i had nothing but a boring white back of the journaling tag to write on... I dont do BORING!!! lol.

So i cut out the following...

TO make this i drew out two circles that overlapped each other a bit, so i could fold it in half and have it open...

I then cut out a bigger circle and punched out some smaller kraft circles.

And put them all together to look like this...
It opens up so you can write your message.
And volia a card...



Come back in a few days and see how i used one of the other ones xxx

Supplies
Basic Grey Take note
Basic Grey paper: Tea Time
Strawberry patch
Retro flower punch