Friday 25 February 2011

Papertrey Ink Blog Hop

Hello everyone,

                                                                        

                                            

I've had a great time away with my daughter, but before I went, I made a card for this months PTI Blog Hop. The challenge this time was to use scallops in a design and I wanted to try a card with contrasting texture. This is what I came up with:-


I used my Cricut to cut a heart shape out of Enchanted Evening card stock and cut scallops from a Stampin Up punch, a Martha Steward punch and from Plantin Schoolbook, which I then passed through the Swiss Dots Cuttlebug folder for some texture. I layered these up with some bobbly white trim from my stash, and then used a sentiment from Signature Greetings, embossed in white on the left corner of the heart. I used another piece of card for the Anniversary tag and scalloped and inked the edges, before sticking it to the right side of the heart. I then rounded the edges of the base card and inked the edges to soften things a little, and put some ruffled white ribbon across the centre. The heart was then raised on pop dots and adhered to the card with a little white button to finish it off. This is the first time I have used three different trims on  one card but I think it works!

There were so many entries in the last blog hop that I didn't manage to see them all, so I better get hopping to see all the wonderful inspiration everyone gives. Happy hopping! I'm also going to enter this card into CCEE Stampers challenge to use blues to make a monochromatic card.

Hugs
Carol x

15 comments:

Sara Mac said...

Love this Enchanted Evening heart! The embossed sentiment just pops. Great trim on the heart too.

Pam W. said...

Love all the texture. I really like the unexpected "blue" heart instead of pink or red.

Enjoy your time away!

farmhouse-story said...

such a sweet heart and i love the pom poms, carol:)

Ann said...

Scallops all the way Carol! Great card and I love those pompoms!

Anonymous said...

Love the white sentiment on the dark paper, and the card design is darling.

Laurie Unger said...

Oh - this is fab! TFS!

Linda Suarez said...

Love the blues! This is a very cute card! And I love the bobble trim.

Karin Åkesdotter said...

This is sooo cool Carol! Cute and Beautiful!!!Love what you did with the scalloped-challenge!
Have a great week-end, hugs Karin

Karen C said...

How sweet! I love the scallops and pom poms!

Jen Carter said...

How super cute!! I LOVE the pom pom trim on here, it works perfectly with the scallops!!

Kay D said...

Such beautiful colors and I REALLY love that pom pom trim- how adorable is that?

Terri said...

Great idea! Love the pom pom trim too.

Diane Jaquay said...

That heart is so creative! Beautiful card!

The Other Patti Sue said...

Such a fun and creative work of art!

Suzanne said...

Hi Carol, I love this if only for the fact that blue is one of my favorite colors. It's superb!

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