All occasion card featuring a wood grain embossed background, a velvet ribbon and a butterfly embellishment

 I had a great time making backgrounds inspired by the carved wood grain technique by Gina K even though I was not able to reproduce a background quite a well executed as hers.  

This one is wood grain in blues on white cardstock  and then an embossed design which I highlighted with ink.  Most of the inks were Distress ones.  I created a border punched layer (SU) in white cardstock on which to lay my beautiful blue velvet ribbon!!  I mounted the ribbon to the border and then adhered this element to my background.  I added my silver butterfly die cut using a tiny black brad because the texture of the velvet was very raised making 3D foam tape ineffective.  I added 5 clear rhinestones to complete the rest of its body.  Once I added that bling I decided I needed a bit on my border too so I added dots of clear glitter with a gel pen.  I mounted this large element to a royal blue card front to finish off my card!   Therese

All occasion card featuring wood grain decorative paper, ribbon and a punched leaf

 As I was digging through my paper stash the other day and I found this weathered wood colour printed paper which I have never used.  I decided to see if I could incorporate it in my next card and this is what I came up with.  

I started with a red circle and I punched a leaf from it.  Next, I cut a red card base and mounted my trimmed background to it.  I trimmed out a strip of black cardstock, punched it with my scallop border punch and pierced the scallops with a push pin.  I found  some ribbon in my stash that worked perfectly so I mounted a piece of that to my strip securing the ends to the back.  I ran my pattern tracing wheel on both sides of the ribbon to add some texture.  The red circle seemed to not have quite enough presence on its own so I cut a scalloped circle (Nestibilities) from black cardstock to layer behind it.  I did cut a circle from the middle of it so the leaf would highlight the wood grain.  I layered these two together and then mounted this focal element to my card front using 3D foam tape.  I decided to add a bit of bling - three silver brads to the strip over the ribbon before mounting it with double sided tape to the front of my card below my leaf element.     Therese