Card Week, Part 4

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Card Sketch #11

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"Be Mine" card by Tammy Volland
Supplies - Digital Kit by: Connie Prince / Who Lives Here; software used: Adobe Photoshop CS3

Well, I know I am off seasons with this one, but I had a friend wanting a "be mine"
card. So I thought this would be a great one for that.

Variation 1) I used hearts instead of the squares. I made one bigger to offset the title.

Variation 2) I added a plastic glass frame around the middle paper piece. You can get the action for Photoshop at www.atomiccupcake.com.

Variation 3) I made the title art (word art with kit) to stand out and faded out the forever part.  I put drop shadows behind all of it to make it look more paperistic (if that is such a word! lol).

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"Love. Adore. Cherish." card by Noey Hunt
Products used - Patterned paper: Paper Reflections (vines), Creative Imaginations, Chatterbox (brown); Stickers: Stampin' Up; Brads: American Crafts; Tools: Cricut Walk in my Garden cartridge (bread tags)

Variation 1: I've been wanting to try out these little bread tags for a long time now and thought three of them together would work well, like in this card sketch. So I switched the row of squares into a line of bread tags hanging on a ribbon.

Variation 2: I rotated the sketch because I wanted my bread tags to stretch across the card but they were too skinny with the horizontal layout.

Variation 3: I had to adjust the widths and placement of the accent paper strips because I needed them to work with the ribbon holding the bread tags.

Variation 4: My bread tags already had words on them that gave purpose to the card, so I dropped the explicit message. But I wanted more brown and a little bling and I accomplished this by added another thin strip below the other accent papers.

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"Love You More!" card by Shari Thurman
Supply List - Patterned Paper and sticker sentiment: Bella Blvd.; Rhinestones: Kaiser Crafts; Twine: The Twinery; Ink: Colorbox Chalk Ink (Chestnut Roan); Other: Machine Stitching and cardstock

This card measures 4 1/4 x 5 1/2. On this card, I kept the background basically the same as the sketch and stitched around the edges. I lowered the stripes of paper so that they were centered. Instead of adding three embellishments, I used one flower with a sentiment. I attached the flower with 3D foam adhesive and added rhinestones around the circle. I then added twine tied into a bow along the bottom.

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"Swim Party Banner" by Katrina Hunt
Supplies - Patterned Paper: Comso Cricket (Salt Air); Chipboard: Cosmo Cricket Blackboard; Stickers: Cosmo Cricket (Salt Air); Ink: Jenni Bowlin (Chewing Gum, Stick Candy, Chicken Feed); Adhesive: Scotch ATG, Fabri-Tac, Scrapbook Adhesives by 3L; Twine: The Twinery Baker’s Twine; Ribbon: May Arts
As soon as I saw the card sketch, I knew I wanted to make a banner. The three squares on the card just reminded me of a banner with squares and a ribbon going all the way down.

• Variation 1 - Banner instead of a card

• Variation 2 - Squares are more embellished than the squares on the card sketch.

Here's a closer look at the details:

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