The inspiration for this card took quite a while to gel and mesh together. It started with Karen Barber's color challenge: use Cherry Cobbler, Calypso Coral and More Mustard - a combination that is way out of my comfort zone. I started working on it last Tuesday, but I was really struggling and couldn't come up with a good idea. I got as far as die cutting two shapes - one in cherry and one in coral, then cut strips of mustard, and that was it! All the things I tried to do with what I had was bleh... Then, on Friday, I saw WendyBell's Free for All challenge of crossing strips, and that was the catalyst. Saturday morning, I woke up and suddenly got the idea of braiding the strips of paper I had. It took some experimenting before I finally came up with this card (well, it's already Sunday, lol!). Thank you for the challenges, Karen and Wendy, because without them I wouldn't have come up with this idea!
BTW, if you want to know how to braid using more than 3 strips, this link really helped me: http://paperraindrops.blogspot.com/2...5-strands.html
I used 7 strips in my card - it's pretty much the same process as 5 strands. Also, the strips of paper I used are 1/4" wide then I run them through a crimper so that they would be more flexible and with more texture.
Date: Sunday, September 4, 2011 GMT Views: 16828
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Registered: December 19, 2010 Location: San Francisco Bay Area Posts: 960
Sun, Sep 04, 2011 @ 3:58 PM
This is so creative! I love what you came up with; it looks terrific it's so unexpected (in a VERY good way). It's also reasurring to know that someone else feels "stumped" by the challenges from time to time...
Registered: March 30, 2008 Location: Oro Valley, Arizona Posts: 12742
Tue, Sep 06, 2011 @ 6:11 PM
I just followed a link from WendyBell's blog to this thread and your card just jumped off the page. Wow! Awesome braiding!! Thanks for the link. I may try this technique although I'm not sure how successful I'll be. Love the Bible verse you used on your card too...Beautiful!!!
Registered: April 21, 2004 Location: Clark Fork, ID Posts: 12797
Wed, Sep 07, 2011 @ 8:44 AM
Beautiful card. Love the braiding look. And those colors are so fabulous. Sentiment goes well with this weave. My favorite part is that the weave is unfinished, as is God's work in us.
Thanks for inspiring me.
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