Happy Birthday Cupcake!

Hello Friends! Today I am sharing the card I created for the first class at Pattern Play. We learned techniques for mixing patterned papers.

Kristina is a big fan of sketching a layout for her cards and I think that is great. Sometimes I even do that myself. But for this card, I turned to one of my favorite sketch blogs, Freshly Made Sketches.

I just find it easier to create two cards at once, and most of the time, I only share one on my blog. Today, I am sharing both of the cards I made for this lesson. My first card, I 'grounded' the patterns by matting them with white card stock and drawing the eye to the focal panel, by matting it with a colored card stock.

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For my second card, I chose to mat all the papers with colored card stock and I changed the main background paper, because I didn't have any more of the sprinkles paper. :)

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As you can see, both cards feature the same color palette, embellishments and focal image. But they each have a different feel to them. Even though I like them both, I think I prefer the second card...It's richer and warmer and just falls better on my eye.

That's all for me today! Thanks for stopping by.


Blessings~



materials~

stamp set: Create a Cupcake(Stampin' Up!)
card stock: Neenah Solar White(Simon Says Stamp)  Layering Weight White(GinaK Designs)  Summer Starfruit, Midnight Muse(Stampin' Up!)
patterned paper: Cupcake(Basic Grey)
ink: Summer Starfruit, Pumpkin Pie, Real Red, Midnight Muse, Old Olive(Stampin' Up!)
punches: Cupcake Builder(Stampin' Up!)
other: buttons(Stampin' Up!)  Natural Jute(Papertrey Ink)  Clear Stardust glitter pen(Sakura)  gems(Me and My Big Ideas)  Crystal Effects(Stampin' Up!)