 guys how are you today? Alright so we're here to do this month's design team challenge which is an altered playing card. I took direct inspiration for the prompt from my friend Anne Williamson's Facebook group. They do some really beautiful altered playing cards in the group and so I thought well we should give it a shot. I happen to have this drawer of playing cards. I have all kinds. I have jumbo giant ones. I've got owls. I've got cupcakes, these round ones, pink ones, these vintage playing cards that have these interesting like sayings or quotes on them. I've got a bunches of these old fashion like reproduction cards. I've got these mini ones with fairies on them. So I think we're gonna take a couple different kinds of cards and put them together and make a couple of tags and I'm really kind of wanting to take these round ones with some of these birds and put them together. So I think we're gonna do that. The idea behind the prompt of course is to use things from my Etsy shop rubber stamps, digital downloads, and share them with you all and show you what you could do with them and there'll be links to my Etsy shop in the description below along with links to the other design team videos. They will have used digital download images or some of the stamps or something like that or maybe all of the above. All right. So let me put this drawer away and we will get to making some cards. All righty. I love this little bird. He's so cute. All right. So we're gonna take these pink cards. I love this round deck. I don't know where I got it from. Probably Dollar Tree because I see these little shaped cards at Dollar Tree and I just can't help myself. So I think we're gonna save the pink side because I really like it. We're gonna turn them over and I want to cover this side with some paper. This is a sheet from one of my planner sets that's available in the Etsy shop. These are copies of some feather paintings that I've done resized and reimagined onto this sheet of collage paper. You could of course print it on cardstock to use in your planner too and we're gonna use this and I'm gonna turn this over and I think, see what I have, I think I want to use my creative station but I don't remember if there's sticker paper in here or laminate paper. So let's do a test first and let's find out because I have no idea. I'm just gonna take a scrap paper from the trash. It might be sticker paper but it might not be. I don't know. It is laminate paper but I think that will work. Maybe. Maybe not. Let's see. Have something else I could use. See sometimes just picking the glue is like a big deal. Let's use our ATG gun. I'm really kind of wanting to use dry glue because some of this paper is kind of thin so I think what we're gonna do is I'm gonna put some ATG tape on the back of the card around the edge and then down the center. I'm gonna just stick it, stick it down. I'm gonna do three of them and I will probably send two of them out as racks. Random act of kindness. Alright now let's cut those out. So one of the reasons I wanted to use a dry glue is because this is inkjet printer paper and if you get it too wet it is going to bleed. So we don't want that. So I'm going to just carefully here go around the edge. I like that. That is cute already. I can just see that with the bird on there. Save this piece because I'll do something with it later. Nice thing about the digital downloads are that you can buy the file. Most of them are around two dollars. Some are a little less, some are a little more. But you can buy the file and then you own it and you can print it over and over and over again. Whether you use it in your planner or you use it in some journaling or you use the collage papers as part of a project like this one. That's cute too. You know I got out this black stays on ink pad with the idea of using it on here now. I don't know if I want to now. Isn't that the way of things? It's always when I'm on camera. Change my mind. Mind project. Pretty typical. That's cute too. I love that. Alright so those are our base. I love those. I have a bunch of little bits and pieces. I've got these other stickers here that I was thinking we would put on this side. This is a different digital download sticker sheet. But now I don't know if I want to. Okay I do want to punch a hole in the top of this round tag. That I know. And I do think I want to punch a coordinating hole in the bird card. I think I want it to be right where that music note is at. So let's do that on all of them. This is just your standard office supply hole punch. I'm thinking I want to stitch around the edge. And I'm thinking I might want to. Yeah I want to stitch around the edge. So I'm going to get out my sewing machine and I will be right back. Okay this is my little small genome machine that I used just for stitching on paper. Now I've already stuck some glue on here which has might be a problem but we're going to do it anyway. I'm going to get really close to the edge of the card like an eighth of an inch and I'm just going to sew all the way around the edge. Oh yeppers I like that. Okay normally I fast forward through these things but we're not going to do that today. I lost a bird somewhere and that's totally cute. I'm going to move the sewing machine out of the way. So cute. Love it. Alrighty. So we have our birds and I've got some words. The words are also part of my digital download file, different files. There's one that just has words, two sheets. One with no background and one with a background. All of the digital download files are all formatted to fit on certain Avery sticker sheets and the type of sticker sheet it's made to fit on is part of the description and the title of the digital download. And this one's like pretty well used up and obviously having issues. So I do think I want to do something like this. I'm still debating about putting this as one of these on the back. I don't think I want to though. I have a bunch of different little bits and pieces I've just been kind of collecting. They've just been kind of piling up to be honest. Little tassels and so let's use some of these on here. I pick up these little bits and pieces like everywhere that I go. I swear to God it's just really hard to just say you don't need that. At some point I have to say it but I'm going to do this one, this one, and maybe that one. What else do I have floating around in here? I have some fun safety pins. I also have some feathers. I don't know. I think I want to just use the safety pins and I know I want to use a word. Some of these labels have two words. Some have one word. Get the little tags off of here. Little twisty, wiry things. We're originally holding these to their packaging. Kind of wondering about the labels. I don't think I want to use them. I like the way the feather paper looks. It's just so cute. Okay. Sorry. I have to stop going over, going on about the feather paper. Okay. Let's take some of these labels. Have two words on them and some have one. So on the two word labels you can just cut the words apart and I'm going to put fly on one bird. Let's see. I have hope. Joy. I'm to print another label. Ashita's labels I think. So I have these safety pins. These are safety pins without a little thing at the bottom. They look like a little light bulbs. I got them on Amazon but you can get them in Etsy. I forget what they're called but I'll try to remember to put a link in the description. Along with the link to my Etsy shop. I think I'm going to use a black one. I think I'm going to use black. I'm still thinking I want to add something else to these tags before we call it done. Let me think about it and I'll be right back. I do think I'm going to take this sharpie pen. This is just a plain sharpie pen, a medium point. Because it's a sharpie it should write pretty well on the glossy surface of the greeting card. I'm sorry the playing card. That is not a greeting card. So because the playing cards are slick I do want to make sure on the glossy slick side that whatever I'm using is waterproof and will stick well. I am going to edge the cards with a little bit of black stays on. And I do think we're going to put out one of my stamped images on here somewhere. There we go. That's better. Love it. Okay. So now let's get out a paint pen. A sharpie pen. This is a gold water based sharpie. I do want to get some fibers out for some ribbon or something. And I actually have some that I made. Let me see if I can get it out. Hang on. I'll be right back. Some fibers I made out of cutting apart old fabric and scarves and things. And this is extra that I had. So I was thinking to use a piece or two of this. This dark blue one is silk. And that's how you make those strips. I really kind of want a purple to go with it. So that's in a different box. This will work. This is also silk. This is some recycled silk. So I want to cut these or I don't know what is that. Six or eight inches. I'm going to fold it in half. I'm going to shove it through the two holes on the playing cards. You might need help getting it through the hole. You might need to get out a pokey tool or something like that. So I'm going to take the loopy end and pull the cut ends through the loopy end. Then I'm going to take my little safety pin and one of my little tassels. See now that color doesn't look good now on there. There's a purple one. So then I'm going to put the safety pin through the holes also and then attach it at the top here. So then you have this cute tag that you could use as a gift tag or you could write a message on it or just have it stuffed in a journal pocket. They make cute little pieces for Happy Mail. If you're going to paint on these, which you could also do, you probably want to sand the surface a little bit and then cover it with some gesso. That's so that the paint will stick to the slick surface of the card. I did that wrong. Why don't you guys say anything? Okay, I spent more time talking and being interrupted than anything. But there we go. Here are our altered playing card tags. Aren't they super cute? I love that they're multi-layered. I love that they're messy and grungy. I love the way that feather paper turned out. That is super cute with the stitching on the back. You could still put a sticker back there if you wanted. You could use these as a gift card or just as a journal insert. They're super cute. I am going to gift at least two of them. I hope this gives you some ideas of what you can do with digital downloads and things from my Etsy shop. The list of links for the places to get different things I've used is in the description below. If I forgot anything, let me know. Leave a comment. I'll answer it. That's it for today. Don't forget the most important thing. Do something nice for yourself because you deserve it and I'll see you later.