I'm over on the Poppystamps Blog today with a reminder to enter their monthly challenge. This month the focus is on birthday cards. It doesn't have to be a card. Just use at least one Poppystamps product and enter here.
Oh, how I'd love to float in a pool with beautiful flowers all around. But winter has finally struck Texas, so I'll let this little otter do it for me. I started with this sweet whittle girl and put her on the Whittle Wave background. It was super simple to cut two wave backgrounds and snip the cuts in a darker blue and place them on top of sections of a lighter one. To give a more springtime feel, I added flowers from the Floral Cluster die (I use this thing ALL the time) and colored the center of the flowers with a white gel pen.
Next I wanted to add layers and frames and repeat the colors I had already used. I added little scraps of patterned paper as well as two kinds of frames. I used the same brown paper as the otter and cut the Whittle Wood Frame and used it as a layer. I cut the Double Scalloped Stitched Frame from white and used it on top of the same dark blue I used on the wave background. When you keep your color scheme to just a few colors and repeat those colors, you get a very cohesive-looking design - and it saves trips to your paper stash.
I added some tiny staples with the Tim Holtz Tiny Attacher and some baker's twine and played with the paper "stack" until I liked it. I put it all onto a white card and added a sentiment that I computer printed. This card was a lot of fun to put together. I'm certain I will use this "stacked" approach again.
Ingredients
CS: Neenah Solar White 110lb, Memory Box Ocean Blue 6x6 pad, Memory Box Earth Neutrals 6x6 pad, Stampin' Up! Pink Pirouette and Calypso Coral
Patterned Paper: MFT Tiny Check 6x6 Paper pad
Sentiment: computer printed using DK Lemon Yellow Sun font
Dies: All Poppystamps: Whittle Otter, Floral Cluster, Whittle Wave Background, Double Scalloped Stitched Frames, Whittle Wood Picture Frames
Embellishments: Tim Holtz Tiny Attacher, Baker's Twine
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