Harlequin, Stripes and Flowers 'Thank You' Card

Hello and welcome! 

Another week has flown by and I am back today with a new card for this week's Allsorts challenge! It's my turn to host and I selected the theme of Patterned Papers! Hope you'll play along with us for a chance to win, in fact there will be two prizes this week. I'm making it easy too, if you don't have any patterned papers, you may get creative and find a pretty page in a magazine as an alternative, or you may even make your own DIY patterned paper using inks,stamps, stencils etc. 

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It's a total coincidence that I used harlequin patterned paper on my card and only noticed when I prepared the post yesterday when I saw our  prize was the harlequin bouquet stamp :-) This paper just stood out to me when I dug through my box of papers. 

The floral stamp I used here is by Penny Black from the set Blooming Garden. It's been stamped using Memento Tuxedo ink and colored using Copic markers. I did stamp/cut out the flowers twice to adhere with foam tape for a 3D effect.

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The "Thank You" sentiment is an oldie by Stampin Up. The colorful striped paper is also by Stampin Up, really old as well and I have no idea what brand the harlequin paper is. 

The herringbone (?) type "stitching" is a stamp from an old Whimsy Stamps Faux Stitching set and I tied some natural jute twine around the card. To add a little more interest I rounded the bottom corners with an old Creative Memories corner rounder punch. I'm surprised this punch still works so well, as I have newer punches that are no longer usable! This punch was actually my very first papercraft tool I've ever purchased (along with those decorative scissors), when I first started scrapbooking a long long time ago! And you can bet I pretty much used it on every photograph back then! LOL.

I used a glitter brush on the flower centers but it doesn't show up too well here. While it does sparkle some in real life, there is not much sparkle left in my brush pen and I really need to get a replacement soon!

Thanks so much for visiting!! Hope to see you over at the challenge blog! 

 

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