So here is another one!
The current challenge at Lily Pad Cards is to make a card using pieces of patterned paper. Ever since I read Beate’s herringbone tutorial at SCS, I loved the technique and just can’t get enough of it. So here I am with a herringbone card again, this time using up my favorite pink/red scraps!
Lily Pad Cards also has a Card Chain challenge where one of the options was to make a VDay card. Its cool to send your card to someone who could literally be anywhere in the world and receive one from someone possibly equally far away :O Since my card today will possibly travel a lot, I wanted to keep it as flat as possible so shipping would be easy and safe.
There was also Papertrey Ink’s Make it Monday challenge today. Nicole’s video makes it seem so easy to make the strip right? Well for someone like me who needs precise measurements, it was a disaster 😦 3 wasted strips later, I got the measurements right. For those interested, my strip was 10″ and I scored it lightly every 2″ then folded it at the 45-degree angles.
I loved the dimensional sentiment and really wanted to do this. But I didn’t have any good PTI stamps with separate words. I went with the “keep in touch” stamp from the Happy Trails set because I felt it represented what I wanted to convey to my yet-unknown friend when I sent the card out. I stamped it twice masking out “touch” for the first part and “keep in” for the second part.
Here is my card:
Ink: Papertrey Ink Fresh Snow
This one goes to
- Lily Pad Cards Simon Says Stamp patterned paper challenge
- Lily Pad Cards card chain challenge
- Papertrey Ink Make it Monday
Thanks for looking!
Cuts, Crops & Creativity 
What fun! Love all the fun strips woven and twisted to perfection. The jewel toned colors are so appealing too. Great MIM!
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Love that paper ribbon fold! The patterned paper is bold and very striking!
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So pretty. Love the herringbone design.
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Love the background…what a great way to use up scraps! And the sentiment banner is fabulous too! Thanks for the inspiration!
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Lol , it worked on my second try too. Beautiful card and I love all the red colors, nicely done.
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Great job!! Love your background!! Great job with the banner too!!
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Amazing background! The sentiment banner is the perfect focal image for it, too!
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Fun, fun card, love it!
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This is such a fun and creative design! Love all the different patterns and the clever way you added the sentiment! Thanks for playing along in the CCC this month!
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