Tuesday, August 13, 2013

Scrappy Birthday!

  It's my turn on the Shop Pumpkin Spice blog.  I still have bits from this My Mind's Eye collection called Indie Chic "Nutmeg."  It is my go-to collection for masculine cards with these wonderful patterns in shades of blue.

  My card evolved from a small scrap of the blue tone-on-tone circles paper.  I rounded opposite corners and inked the edges.  Then I coordinated three other patterns in blue.  Even the grey-ish banner is scrap piece from in the collection.  I stamped the sentiment and added twine.  Tip:  to keep my twine from unraveling, I dab a tiny dot of glossy accents on the ends.   They end up looking a little bit like shoe laces.


Supplies:
papers:  My Mind's Eye Indie Chic "Nutmeg" Boy CheckerFamily Laurel Burst (both sides), and Memories Tapestry; XPEDX navy linen card stock
adhesive:  Xyron 900
sentiment:  My Pink Stamper "Birthday Doodles" stamp set
twine:  The Twinery charcoal

Happy Tuesday!

10 comments:

snappy scrappy said...

So pretty, great patterns!!

Julie Tucker-Wolek said...

This is beautiful!! LOVING the blues!!!!

lauren bergold said...

oh wow! that is ♥BRILLIANT♥ in every sense... i love those awesome stacked lozenze shapes, especially!!!

Lisa said...

Gorgeous!! Those papers are beautiful!! Love this!! Happy Tuesday :)

Lisa
A Mermaid's Crafts

Missy said...

Great papers, they make such a pretty card and I love the bold sentiment!! Very eye catching!!

Kard Queen said...

Lovely papers and coordinating of colors/patterns. This card has a cool and serenity look to it.

Rose said...

such a pretty way to use up scraps :)

Unknown said...

What a great card. I love the papers you used..

Hugs~

Shelly said...

Okay, what a great tip for the twine - thanks you ;)
Pretty card and such a great use of scraps!!
Shelly

Leslie Hanna said...

I've kept this unread in Feedly all week just so I could come back to tell you how much I like it! I may have to CASE it with some of my remnants. :D