Blue Friday...

Happy Friday,

Back to the samples today that I made for sues shows so its the New York collection which is coming up on C&C in a couple of weeks.  I wanted to show with this card how a rectangular background can be made easily into a square background!

I started by die cutting 2 of the New York background in pale blue card and then cut them through the middle on the long edge.  The pattern on this die is a mirror image on each corner meaning that if you rotate the half pieces at 90 degrees of the background die they fit over the other edge perfectly.  What I have done is to rotate each of the 4 cut pieces and fitted them so that the design turns into the square shown at the background of this card.  I usually show this technique on demo's so its hard to explain without showing you!!

Next I cut the largest pierced square die from the Herald Square set, wrapped a piece of blue seam binding over the square and foam mounted it over the background which Hides the joins in the centre!  Next I cut the filigree section of the Herald square die set in blue and foam mounted this on top.  I added a centre square die cut stamped with the sentiment from the Friend amount stamp set and shaded the die cut in the die with stormy sky distress ink.

Finally I added a simple double bow however I used white ruffled edge ribbon and blue seam binding together to give a bow with a difference.  To highlight the background I added some pearl PVA dots on the junctions on the detailed now square background.

Ingredients:
Creative Expressions Craft Dies for Sue Wilson
New York background
Herald Square die set
Friends sentiments stamp set
Stormy Sky distress Ink
Pearl PVA

Enjoy...