To be honest, I wasn’t really sure how I felt about the Laughing Lola paper when I first saw it in the new Autumn/Winter 2013 Idea Book, but after playing with it today I absolutely LOVE IT!

Starting with a Kraft Cardstock base I added a layer of Black Cardstock and a B&T Duo® from the Laughing Lola Paper Packet.  The Artbooking Cricut® Cartridge was used to give the shape to both of those papers. The adorable bow is cut using the Artiste Cricut® Cartridge on a B&T Duo® from Laughing Lola also…wanna know the best part about this?!?! ALL of Close To My Heart’s B&T Duos® are double sided!!!! Meaning the dark flourished paper and the purple bow are cut from the same sheet of paper!  You get TWO different designs on every sheet of B&T paper!

 If you’ve followed my blog for any length of time (and if you haven’t I encourage you to read through previous posts!) I like to add bling to my cards. I am a mom of a little boy so bling isn’t something I get to use very often on my scrapbook pages because he tends to be the subject matter of a majority of my scrapbooking. Being a girl, I like all things that sparkle… So I added a Small Clear Sparkle Flourish to the card and a glittery black button (retired) to the center of the bow. The button is threaded using Black Hemp.

The sentiment is stamped using the Happy Birthday Stamp Set (retired) in Versamark® and Black Embossing Powder which is retired, but as a substitute for the Black Embossing Powder you can use Black Pigment Ink which available in the Basics Exclusive Inks® Mini Pigment Pad Set and Clear Detail Embossing Powder.

This card completes the Add A Bow Card on the Card A Day Challenge!

-Kelly

When I started this Card A Day Challenge I had my best intentions of staying on track with each card designated for each day, but apparently that isn’t my style. I’ve kind of been bouncing all over the calendar…picking whatever card I felt I wanted to make on that given day! Which is okay, since my only goal is to make 30 cards within 30 days. It doesn’t matter what order they are made in, right?!?

Here is my card for today and it also is entered into the Retro Sketches Challenge.

The Sketch:

My Card:

Starting with a traditional white card base I added a layer of Lagoon Cardstock rounding one corner of the card base and the colored cardstock with a traditional corner rounder. The heart overlay and frame are from the Artbooking Cricut® Cartridge using B&T Duos® from the Sarita Paper Packet. The banners are cut using B&T Duos® from the Sarita Paper Packet also, The sentiment is from the For Every Occasion Stamp Set (retired) in Outdoor Denim Exclusive Ink®.

What’s a card without a little bling?!? So I added three Clear Sparkles above the sentiment banner.  The flower with the bling in the center is actually from the Base & Bling Floral Accents. The flower is silver, but it didn’t stand out quite as much as I wanted it to so I added white acrylic paint to the flower to help it stand out on the card. I also added Natural Hemp behind the flower and navy stitching to the edge of the Lagoon Cardstock.

This also makes the Use A Heart Card complete for the Card A Day Challenge!! The list of cards to make is narrowing but so are the days in September!!

-Kelly