Cards from photos

I have a lot of lovely photos that I took in the Keukenhof Gardens in Amsterdam. I have wanted to use them in card making for a long time, and today was the day I did just that!

I printed the photos on smooth, matt paper and then decided I wanted a bit of gloss on them so sprayed with a quick drying paper varnish. I also printed a faded background paper of the same photo. I wanted to 3D the pictures so cut smaller layers from 3 other prints of the same picture.

I really like this card. It's uncluttered and the decoupage layers I chose worked well.







I wanted to make this picture into an easel card. The decoupage layers worked well as did mounting the background paper onto yellow card. I then chose a pink ribbon but wrapped it around the same yellow card and of course it turned orange! I don't think the embellishments I chose work well at all. To me, the card is twee!