My first foray into Parchment Craft produced this small box : the design is the logo of the International Guide camp where I learnt how to make it.

The first Parchment Craft card I ever made : traced in black ink, coloured with felt-tip pens and mounted on blue card.

 

(Above) white work design birthday card (free pattern here) with embossing, pricking and cut-outs. This is my own design and was my first attempt at anything this complex and I made a lot of mistakes! (I learnt from them, though. ) My second white work card can be seen below left and is another of my own designs, made for my mother's 81st birthday : the pattern can be downloaded by clicking here.

Above right is another white work card with embossed flower, pricked lace edges and corners cut with a commercial corner decoration punch. This card was actually drawn freehand but I have since made a pattern, which you can see and download here.

Small (2 inches by 2¼ inches) experimental piece made from a small scrap of parchment with a left over (and torn!) rub-on transfer design in the middle. It is now mounted on black card and I will probably use it to decorate a greeting card.

Old design - new card! This wedding card for my god-daughter and her fiancé is based on my original design for my mother's birthday card (see above) with the addition of a cut out 'ribbon' border and substitution of a lattice corner pattern for the rosebuds. This solved the thorny problem of how to mount it on the backing card - it is a folded piece of parchment with the fold edge cut out and the back glued onto the card with Pritt Stick.

Scan of the completed card I made for my son and new daughter-in-law: the border is embossed, pricked and cut out, and the centre panel is painted using green ink for the ferns and gold ink for the wedding rings (they look better on the actual card than on this scan) with the ribbons and flowers embossed in the usual way. The lettering was done freehand (I have invested in some good-quality calligraphy pens and nibs and used them instead of the cheap mapping pens I've used previously!) and then lightly embossed. The finished design was attached to the dark blue card with double-sided tape on the back of the card and the front lightly secured in place with glue dots behind the embossed circles along the 'ribbon.'

This is a one-off card and its design is not available for public use.

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