How often have you been card making and accidentally marked your card when using glue? Or seen a mark on the card before you use it but thought, never mind I’ll make that the back of the card and stick a “handmade by sticker over it”, only to find as you finish the card that you didn’t put it to the back and what you thought was just a tiny mark anyway, is sitting there glaring at you.

It happens to the best of us at one time and another, and if you’ve used an expensive card like Royal Purple Skin or Ice Gold, to say nothing of the embellishments and all the work that went into making it, it’s a crying shame to throw it away.

It’s one of those laws, like toast always falls butter side down, marks on cards only become apparent as you are about to put the finishing touch to it.

Linda’s usual answer is a butterfly. Butterflies don’t look out of place wherever you put them on a card as they fly at all different angles. However when Linda made the card below she used a matching tag from the elements sheet in the Velvet Baroque card kit.

So a really nasty mark, on the beautiful Royal Purple card, is superbly hidden. Step by step instructions on making this card can be found in our card making projects gallery. Linda doesn’t mention the mark, but then, if I hadn’t told you, would you have known?