I decided to take the challenge to heart and went through my paper stash until I found three that I thought went together. Following Betsy Veldman's advice on the video, I choose the busy pattern first and decide to use the bird & heart paper from Basic Grey's Kissing Booth paper pad.
My second choice was a green patterned paper from the Authentique Freebird series: it felt a little like a nest pattern to me.
The third paper was harder to pick - I didn't want to use pink, so went through my red and orange scraps to see what would fit and decided to use an orange scrap from the card I made last week. This is also an Authentique paper, but from the Delightful collection.
Sketches are great for helping with the layout of a card, but today I decided just to play around with the papers and see what happened.
With the end of the school year is in a couple of weeks, my selection of "thank you" cards needs to be replenished.
I used one of the PTI Half & Half dies to cut a base for my sentiment and added a few goodies. The bird is a Maya Road chipboard piece and musical note paper tape is from Tim Holtz.
The sentiment is from one of my most used stamp sets: Mega Mixed Messages from Papertrey Ink (of course!). A little dimensional adhesive helps lift the sentiment heart higher than the bird.
Thanks for stopping by,
Jacquie
Jacquie, I love the papers you chose and how well they go together! And your card is lovely! Love the bird's wing with the bird on it! Such lovely details!
ReplyDeleteI love the birds... and in fact I think I have this paper! :) great way to work in Tim's tissue paper. Good job Jacquie!
ReplyDeleteI am so proud! Look at all those printed papers!!! I love this card! Those birds on the paper are fantastic. But the chipboard bird is my fav part!
ReplyDeleteWhat a sweet card. I love how you mixed all those patterned papers.
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