My Paper Corner

It's been a while since I've done any tangling (doodling), was inspired to combine with Uniko's mid century modern shapes stencil for this birthday card, my take on one of Bev's card here  on the Uniko Studio blog. I chose five different distress oxide inks in tones of yellow/orange and blue/green to brush through the shapes stencil on a smooth white card panel.  Using the same stencil I drew around the inside of some of the shapes with a black fine liner pen so they overlapped and linked the coloured shapes together.  Filled in these shapes with various hand drawn tangles.  Large bold sentiment stamped in dark green, fussy cut and added with 1mm foam pads. Panel added to a 5x7" white card base. I've used - 5x7" white card base Uniko mid century modern shapes stencil Uniko mid century modern birthday sentiment Distress Oxides:  evergreen bough, salvaged patina, speckled egg, wild honey, squeezed lemonade VersaFine Clair shady lane Linking up with - Stencil

Delighted to be a guest designer for Creative Creases challenge #86  where each challenge is ATG with a fun fold.  Thank you for having me.  The flying seagull fun fold (or accordion centre panel card) is certainly not new but it's the first time I have made one. This card was created for my Mum's birthday last month.  One of her jobs was a reporter for our local weekly newspaper so I chose this old style typewriter as a focal image but surrounded it with pretty flowers and butterflies.  Mum didn't use a typewriter quite of this vintage but it was a talking point when she saw the card!  Stamps and stencils used from Creative Stamping mag 133 covermount set. The typewriter was stamped on the main front panel in back.  The small florals and flourishes were stamped in purple, orange and green to fill the surrounding space.  Typewriter stamped a second time and parts decoupaged on the original for added dimension.  Happy Birthday sentiment stamped on the lightly inked paper. I