Round and Round

Over at Simplicity we were challenged to use a circle on our card.  It could be anything, brads, round flowers, round images…I chose a round die cut and this cute little image from High Hopes of a girl in a round tire swing.  Now the challenging part is it has to be ONE LAYER ONLY.  Yep, OLW rolled around again.

I cut the circle with the die and then traced lightly inside the circle with a pencil so I would know where to position my little girl on the inside. I used a Brilliance Pad in Coffee Bean and then embossed with clear embossing powder.  The ribbon is brown and white and the cardstock is really a beautiful soft pink like the ribbon off to the left but I couldn’t get it to photograph in pink.  It washed out even without flash.  Suffice it to say the pink is really perfect.  Here’s the inside. Now I’m cheating a little because I am going to go ahead and link this to Simplicity but in real life I am going to make a tag and put it over the smudged greeting on the outside.  Did that ever happen to you??

Yay, I got the pink to show up better; and the ribbon too.  So here’s how I fixed it and now I have a CAS (clean and simple) card instead of a OLW.  Sorry Susan, I just didn’t want to start over.

One Layer Wednesday #37

Whew!  How can something that looks so simple be so difficult.  OLW challenge was to use two or more sentiments and nothing else on the card.  I needed a quick Thank You card so I dug out my stash and colored the sentiments because a lot of my Thank You stamps have other words on it too.  So here is what I came up with.  I wanted some color as no images just doesn't seem right!  LOL

 One of Sarah's clients who is a Stampin Up demonstrator picked up some graduation photos here instead of having to drive to Green Bay and when I asked her if I could purchase some Creamy Caramel re-inker or a stamp pad, she GAVE me the bottle of re-inker, her used Creamy Caramel Stamp pad AND the SampNWrite marker. She did allow me to purchase the pack of dimensionals for popping things up on my cards.  I've tried other brands but truly SU has THE BEST dimensionals ever. I never feel I over spend for those, they are such nice quality.