July 2024

For the first card I went with a simple layout which featured a large focal panel.  I love the fun car images and wanted to ensure as many as possible could be seen.  For the background I used the cream and pink “basketweave” paper.  To keep the card from being too pink I used a solid light blue cardstock for the fish tail banner across the card and added a single pink glitter Love from Lizi peel-off.  The small banner running down the card is a scrap of red and pink graph paper print.  For the sentiment I die cut a circle from the same pink cardstock I used for all of the matting.

The next card is my favorite.  I used the fun airplane print for the focal panel and a blue tone-on-tone print for the background.  I found a scrap of glitter paper in my stash, which perfectly matched the background of the airplane print, to use for the large banner behind the focal panel.  As there was already a lot of blue with the background, I used a scrap of mustard yellow cardstock for the banner across the focal panel.  I stamped the sentiment in Versafine Onyx Black ink and matted it on aqua cardstock.  For a finishing touch I added 3 pink brads in the upper left corner of the card.

The last card is incredibly simple.  I wanted to use the scooter print and based on the size of the images and how close they are, I knew I would have to use a large piece of the paper.  I didn’t want a bunch of partial scooters so was careful when creating the focal panel – leaving most of the scooter on the right side and trimming off the back wheels of the scooters on the left.  For matting I used more of the red and pink graph paper and a blue Love from Lizi peel-off.  Another small strip of the graph paper was used for the small fish tail banner behind the sentiment.