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The original inkspiration for this handmade thank you card design came from a colouring page image I saw on Pinterest. Go figure! I really like the idea of popping images up on top of different shapes. And I just love butterflies so that’s where I started with my design.

To go with the butterfly theme I debated a couple of patterned paper options; Fresh like a Daisy and Masterfully Made. I really love the colours, smaller sized flowers and other elements in the Masterfully Made Designer Series Paper pack, so that was the winner. From there I pulled Fresh Freesia as my card base and ink colour.

Then to contrast the darker and eventually busier patterned paper, I stamped the simple ink splatter image from the Quiet Meadow stamp set. And I stamped off on a scrap piece of paper first to make the Fresh Freesia even lighter. Next I added the hexagon shapes that I cut using one of the Something Fancy dies. Starting with just one and spreading out as I went down the cardstock.

For my butterflies I used two different ones. I started with the smaller Brushed Brass Butterflies and then die cut some larger ones using the Meadow dies. I popped up the cardstock butterflies with some Mini Stampin’ Dimensionals. And the “thanks” comes from the Biggest Wish stamp set. I punched that out with the Double Oval Punch and then popped it up with some Stampin’ Dimensionals.

This handmade thank you card design is such a nice one! I think I’ll have to try it with some different shapes and/or images next time.

Check out another card I made using the Masterfully Made Designer Series Paper pack here.

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This week’s Paper Craft Crew Challenge (PCC412) is a different kind of challenge. Usually it’s a sketch challenge, but every once in a while they throw out a theme or in this case a Tic Tac Toe challenge. So how this works is that you choose any 3 squares going down, across or diagonal for your design elements. Here’s what we had to choose from…

For my card I went with the row going down on the right. So a feminine thank you card using Designer Series Paper. From here I dug through my DSP packs to see what would work. I ended up going with the Paper Blooms pack from the current Sale-a-bration catalogue. That made it easy to check off 2 of the 3 boxes.

The “thank you” came from the Timeless Tropical stamp set. I really liked the font and thought that it would work nicely with a feminine theme. I cut it out with the smallest circle from the Stitched Shapes dies and then popped it up with a Stampin’ Dimensional.

To compliment the DSP I used the “A Touch of Ink” stamp set for my stamped images. For my colour combination I went with Rococo Rose and Pear Pizzazz (I can’t believe that Rococo Rose will be retiring in just a few weeks). And to finish it off I used some of the Seaside Spray Metallic ribbon and added a few Rhinestone Basic Jewels. I always have to add some bling to my cards!

Here’s my finished card…

I had a lot of fun with this Tic Tac Toe challenge. If you’d like to check out the others you can find them here. And if you’d like to check out my most recent sketch challenge with the Paper Craft Crew you can check that out here.

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Handmade Thank You Card

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