Tuesday, September 13, 2011

Back To The Basics - Another Black and White Card

With my Silhouette SD now resting in peace, I tried re-living the pre-Silhouette era. It seems so hard to imagine how I can come up with a nice card without my beloved Silhouette. Well, it was, indeed, not easy so I cheated :-). I patiently rummaged through the ton of unused cut designs that I've been tossing into a small bin instead of the trash as I always feel guilty for being wasteful. I found pieces of this black frame with a birthday sentiment on it which were meant for cards that I never finished and eventually completely forgotten. The idea of another black and white card immediately hit me and the next thing I knew, I have a new card!

As the creative juices started flowing, I came up with another new ribbon style by cutting strips of fine ribbon, about 2.75 inches long, and glued the tips together. I used 6 folded strips to form like a quarter of  a flower held by a button as you can see on the photos. I happen to have this polka dot ribbon which was perfect for the card. I love my Cuttlebug but I have not used it as much as I should so I thought of making good use of it for this card. I used my Swiss Dots and Leafy Branch embossing folders, both by Cuttlebug. I used 4 layers of ribbons to cover the cut between the 2 embossed pieces. The first layer is a wide cream organza, second layer is a black organza, third layer is a cream ribbon topped with the same dotted fine ribbon I used for the flower ribbon. The black frame for the sentiment is from the set of Spellbinders Fancy Tags. BTW, this is not exactly a black and white card as I used a dirty white color which is a very light cream color.

This card speaks so much of the style of cards that I used to make before I started using the Silhouette machine. It's a nice feeling going back to my old roots :-).








2 comments:

  1. Lynn C. (wordpefectqueen@yahoo.comSeptember 14, 2011 at 12:50 AM

    Gayle,
    Another beautiful card. I really like the flower in the corner made from ribbon. Nice way to use up ribbon scraps too.
    I remember when I didn't have my Silhouette. I look at my scrapbook pages now and think I should redo them. I won't because it shows how I've advanced as a crafter but the pages seem so sterile compared to the newer ones.
    When is your Silhouette suppose to show up?

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  2. Awesome Card! I've always loved this color combo and thing it makes such stunning cards! I'm dying to get my hands on the new Basic Grey 'Little Black Dress' papers! I think that set will be awesome for BW cards!!

    :) Lisa

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