you might have caught a glimpse of these cards in booth photos from CHA. but they went up on the jillibean soup blog today, so now i can give you a closer look. my assignments were all using the alphabet soup collection, along with some soup staples.
i'm not even sure i noticed this when i created this card. but the "text me" sentiment makes me think of typing and letters. and there are letters on the pattern paper, and on the printed twill. i want to tell you that i was cool enough to plan that, and to have thought that out. but i honestly didn't pick up on that until right now, when i was uploading this to the blog. lol! love that journaling block, which came from the top ten clear stamp set. and the new alphabet stickers in glazed green.
for this card, i punched circles from different patter papers, and arranged them like flower petals behind the large center circle. this card has a ton of pop dots and extra dimension, which is sort of hard to tell in this photo. i pop dotted that lined paper circle, then pop dotted the corrugated alphas, and the stamped banner. the banner was made using the birthday party clear stamp set. i stamped it onto white cardstock and then the lighter beige cardstock. cut out the banner in the white, and then cut just the triangles with the letters from the beige and adhered those to the white banner. added a few red gems to the ends of the banner, and red stickles on the bottoms of the triangles.
did you notice that i did a lot of distressing and inking on the edges of these papers and cards? i havn't done that in ages, and i find i'm turning to it a lot more these days. i felt like some of my layouts were lacking a certain "ummph", and roughing up the edges and inking here and there made me feel better about them. the red paper here, is cut from one of the report cards on the beef bouillon paper. added some of the new alphabet stickers to a journaling sprout, and pop dotted the entire thing to the front of the card.
Laura Vegas 
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