Smiles in the Honeysuckles

Yesterday -- Success. All 13 recipe cards done for swap this coming weekend. Whew. A big sigh! These were fun to do once I decided what I was going to do. The design kept changing. I had to keep reprinting the recipe in different fonts and sizes but I like the final product. I used punched out "circles" of the cooking school gals on the front side...not in the original design concept:

I finally used my Stampin Up letters that I have had for at least two years. The reason I bought this set was so I could use by hole punch to quickly punch little round letters.




I pulled out my All Night Media silverware punch. Love it. Selected black paper so it would pop off the card. You can find this punch over at Addicted to Rubber Stamps. They are in stock. They are so cute...... and not that hard to attach to the card.


Kept the backside simple and finally found a place for my four favorite cooking gals... which were going on the front side but didn't work out.




You might remember that I put the backside background together like a collage and then scanned it and copied it on my color printer. One thing I did do before the scanning was to highlight the Thanksgiving Gal with a lead pencil especially on the left hand side of her apron, underneath the pumpkin she is hold, around the moon, etc.. I have picked this trick up in books I have read .... It popped her out - otherwise she did get lost in the background. Funny thing is I cut out and used all these cut pumpkins and in the final layout you can't see them. But, they are ready to be copied again for another project...