Windows of My Mind

Rhi challenged the DCM team this week, in good BBC Playschool tradition to:

"Look through the round window, or the square window, or the arched window, or any shape window you like!"

"I dare you to make a card with an aperture in it, it can be any shape you like and can be see through or have something covering behind it. It could be a ready made aperture card or lots of small windows punched out, diecut or handcut or one large window. It could be a shaker card and can be for any occasion. ...."

I received a couple of packs of 6x6 papers by 7 Gypsies from A Trip Down Memory Lane on Monday and they are so lovely that I couldn't resist using them straight away for my cards this week - fancy, cutting into new paper the very day it arrives - are you impressed?

I've got some ready-made aperture cards in the bottom of a box somewhere which I've never been inspired to use, so I didn't even bother trying to find them.

Instead for my first card I used a giant flower punch to make the aperture, then used the cut out shape as the basis for the flower behind it, which is then stuck on the inside of the card.

The Stuff: Paper from the Capri paper pack. Various mulberry paper flowers. Various Ribbons and ric-rac, plus paper loops made from the same paper. Brads and eyelets.

Lots of inking, plus gold pen "stitches" around all the edges.

The second card is basically a 12cm square, but cut from the long side of a piece of A4 card and creased to make all the sides different - only the back is 12cms wide. That's probably as clear as mud, sorry! The 2nd photo of the card might help explain better.

The aperture is hand-cut (funny how I never seem to have the right sized punch....) . Again lots of inking, and also a bit of Krylon gold pen for highlighting, some punched hearts and some chiffon ribbon.

The heart inside the aperture I made from wire threaded with gold and red beads.

This time the paper is all from the "Classic" paper pack, with the addition of some scraps of gold card

PS
Well my SA Kit has just this minute arrived so I'm off to open it. Still waiting for two more goodie boxes though.........