Card Week, Part 1

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Card Sketch #12

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"It's Time to Party" card by Amy Roller
Supplies - Cardstock: Bazzill; Patterned Paper: My Minds Eye, Bella Blvd; Embellishment stickers: Simple Stories, My Mind's Eye; Other: Thread

I followed the measurements for this one and placed my patterned squares and then followed with a solid pattern instead of the stripe shown. I felt it looked to busy with a stripe but wanted to have the same effect so I did an accordion fold across the strip before I stuck it down. Next I placed the solid cardstock and another pattern.

I then stitched around the edges of the top square and added my large star embellishment. I hand wrote "It's time to..." on a piece of patterned paper and placed it next to the star with pop dots. Then added the "PARTY" sticker below it as well as confetti and other mini star stickers . I popped this layer up as well to add dimension.

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"Birthday" card by Lynette Jacobs
Supplies used - Cardstock: Bazzill; Printed papers: Cosmo Cricket, October Afternoon, and Simple Stories; Flowers: Unknown; Chipboard Flourish: Enmarc; Glitter: Crazy Crafts; Sentiment rubon: Kaisercraft; Pearls: Upikit

• I followed the measurements of the sketch.

• I replaced the stars with flowers.

• I used a chipboard scroll that I covered in glitter.

• I added pearls to the corners of the top printed paper.

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"Happy Halloween" card by Allison Davis
Supplies - Cardstock: Bazzill; Patterned paper: Authentique; Stamp: Inkadinkado ; Pen: Zig, EK Success;

I only made a few small adjustments to the card to fit the products I was working with.


Variation #1 - Instead of using a stripe for the strip across the middle I used a diamond pattern. I really wanted to get the full diamond on the strip so I cut it a little larger than what the sketch calls for.

Variation #2 - I cut the top square slightly smaller than the 4" square suggested on the sketch. I really liked the pattern on the paper behind the top square so I wanted more of it to show. 

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"You're Doing Great" card by Christina Hoffman
Supplies - Cardstock: Bazzill; Patterned paper: Nikki Sivils, Scrapbooker; Stickers and Alphabets: Nikki Sivils, Scrapbooker; Embroidery Thread: DMC

Variation #1: In place of the 3/4 inch striped strip I used a 1/4 inch die cut strip.

Variation #2: I used a journaling die cut behind my message.

Variation #3: I changed the position of my embellishments from the middle of the right side of the card to the top left corner.
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