Embellish My World

Hi Everyone!  There's a great tutorial posted over at StampNation today by Dream Team member Allison Cope.  She gives some great pointers on how to use patterned paper on your cards.  It's so informative and inspirational that I decided to pull out the few paper pads I own...dust them off and take on this challenge of mixing  3 or more patterns onto a standard sized card.  Here's what I came up with:

Even though these three patterns came from three different pads of paper you can see they coordinate very well together.  The only color that really looked a little out of place to me was the bright yellow on the patterned arrow paper.  I decided to tie that in a little better by using yellow for my sentiment.

For this card I used the following supplies:

Stamps: The Big, The Bold, The Happy (Winnie & Walter), Stained Textures (Bo Bunny).
Ink: onyx black (Versafine), coral crush (My Favorite Things)
Paper: Lucky Charm (American Crafts/Dear Lizzy), Ombre' Stripes (Lil' Inker Designs), Dreamy (Heidi Swapp), Sunshine cardstock (Simon Says Stamp) white 140 lb cardstock (Neenah Exact)
Accessories: Stitched Jumbo Fishtail Banners die, Blueprints #15 (My Favorite Things), Roses die (Paper Smooches), Painted Thanks die (Simon Says Stamp), clear sequins, fun foam (unknown)

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Have a great day!!