Hi
I
am sharing a card I made for the salon where I have my nails done
This
came about one day when I was playing with My Craft Studio this is
something I had always avoided as told myself I couldn't get to grips
with it
Then
I spotted the shop fronts cd and straight away decided to have a play
with it
And
what better way to use what I created than to personalise it and give
to Teresa – who – after 4 or 5 appointments – we found we were
in the same year at school – in the same groups for lots of
subjects too!!
What
a small world...
To
make the card I printed out the beauty salon and added Greenways
Beauty to the sign-age
Teresa
is pink crazy – the inside of the salon is predominately pink and
she even drives a pink car – so naturally I had to use pink on the
shop wherever possible
After
printing the sheets I stuck them direct to card to strengthen
sections
Have
to say these aren't as straight forward to make as they first appear
– I don't know if that's just me being dim though.....
I
cut out the shop front and added a piece of acetate to act as a
window – inside the shop I added signs here and there that were
significant to Teresa
The
roof had all score and fold lines but they just didn't quite fit
right so took a lot of fiddling about with – but I got there in the
end then realised after fitting it I should have fitted the scalloped
blind first so had to carefully remove the roof – typically I tore
it – but did manage to cover it up with out it being noticeable I
hope!!!
I
added candy cane stickles to one set of trees and pretty pink AB gems
to the other set.
The
Greenways Beauty was coloured with Victorian Velvet ink pad by Tim
Holtz and then attached just above the canopy.
Pink
glitter was used on the stripes of the canopy to make it stand out
To
finish I stuck the shop to the inside of an A5 card blank so it could
stand on her counter – I added a lamp post and an advertising board
to finish!
Not
everyone's cup of tea – but Teresa loved it – this was the start
of card orders from her and she also agreed to have a basket of cards
on show as all proceeds will be for charity!!!
Catch
you tomorrow I hope
x
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