It has been awhile since I have made a card. I saw Taylor's Cupcake Challenge, and thought it was a great place to start. I started by choosing my patterned paper. This is paper from Chatterbox called Rosey Cottage and Rosey Bias Plaid. I cut the first plaid layer, and used my ticket corner punch on the corners. Then I made the center layer, and used the apron lace fiskars border punch to make the scallop edge. I added a pink cardstock strip and then tied on the white ribbon. I am not sure where I got this ribbon, but it is almost sheer and I love the texure that it has. For the focal image I decided that I was going to paper piece the chick rather than color it in. After placing the chick onto the white oval, I decided that I would like to mat the oval with the pink scallop to make it stand out more from the patterned paper. TFL!
Registered: May 27, 2003 Location: Michigan's Upper Peninsula - by Lake Superior Posts: 807
Sat, Mar 28, 2009 @ 7:49 PM
You have done a great job on mixing your pattern papers together! They are perfect fir the layout - being so well-coordinated with the image and not cluttered. Scallops and ribbons are always the right touch and this card is terriffic!