I have been revamping

some cards that I made quite a while ago. At the time I had either not finished them properly or not as well as I thought I should have done. So they had gone into my go-to box where they have stayed.

I decided that I should sort them out and either dispose or reinvent.

Here are some:

This was made at a Judith Maslen workshop many moons ago.
 I redid some of the embossing and generally tidied up the edges
of the butterflies and chose a new backing card and sentiment.

A Karen Shaw pattern.
 Done when I was going to do the PCA exam course.

A Sarah Kaye design from Mettemusen.
Hand-painted on parchment. Just remounted.

A Susan McGuirk parchment border.
I broke the beads so had to redo them.
I used different beads and remounted.

This Pierrot I haven't shown before.  It was one of the earliest parchment cards that I attempted.  I believe the pattern came from a Pergamano box set for children.  I have pulled it all to pieces because I had been careless when I fixed the image to the backing card and you could see the glue.   So I have rematted - using my new dies and refixed the image. This time I used the tiniest little bit of Perga Glue around the edge.

All this is because I thought it a waste to have these cards just sitting in a box.  I need about 150 birthday etc cards a year as well as all the Christmas cards so it seemed silly to always make new ones all the time when I have these I can use.