May 27, 2010

Preppy and Pink


I love square cards, even though I hardly ever make them. Check out this week's Pals Paper Arts sketch challenge. I hope you'll play along!


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1. The clean lines and simple look of this sketch made me want to make a "preppy" looking card. I found this pink and navy striped ribbon in my stash and everything just sort of fell into place. I wanted to add ruffles to my ribbon, so I pulled out a white ruffled ribbon and started to perform some surgery. Both ribbons were the same width, so I cut the ruffled edge off my white ribbon, and adhered it to the back of my striped ribbon using Sticky Strip. Tada! I had a striped and ruffled ribbon!

2. The colors were so simple, so I wanted my stamped image to really play off the colors without really being the focal point. I decided on a Fifth Avenue Floral stamp, inked in Night of Navy on Whisper White card stock. Then I took my Cameo Coral Stampin' Write and colored in the centers of the flowers.

3. I loved the pink centers on white flowers so much, that I had to take it a step further! I pulled out my Pretties Kit and grabbed two large flowers. To make the flower puffy, I adhered them back to back, so my back petals fluff forward, and my front petals fluff backwards. (I hope that makes sense...)

4. Then I punched a 3/4" circle out of Whisper White card stock and randomly punched out 1/16" holes. I grabbed a bunch of small pink brads from my stash and stuck them through. To make sure they stayed in place, I covered the back with some Sticky Strip and added a card stock backing. Then centered it on my flower.

5. I adhered my stamped card stock onto a Cameo Coral mat and added my newly ruffled ribbon. I placed my flower onto the ribbon, then adhered everything to my Night of Navy card.

7 comments:

  1. I so love the black with bits of coral, then Pow the Big flower and ribbon, again, so love it.

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  2. Beautiful card, I love your color combination, and LOVE the flower!!

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  3. This is so chic - that big flower against the background is perfect! Thanks for joining in at PPA!

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  4. Love, love, love your card. The colors are terrific! Great job on the sketch!

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  5. Love the ribbons! Beautifully prepared background!

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  6. Beautiful card. I love how you created your own designer paper and I LOVE the flower and center. I will have to try that sometime as I have a whole pretties kit to use up!

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  7. so creative and fun. the ribbon is divine. love the luscious, new blog design, too . . . hugs, M

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