Belle Papier {pretty paper}

I’d like to announce the winner of my Prima flowers and paper Belle Bonbons, or blog treats! I used a random number generator to pick a winner from all the comments left on my Do you like Primas post. There were 227 comments in all! The random number generator chose number fifty-five! After counting and checking it twice…Rosella is the winner! For her comment Rosella wrote…

Congratulations! Enjoy your blog very much! My favorite paper co? I don’t really have one. There are so many pretty papers out there. Anything pretty I can get my hands on.

I agree! I just love pretty paper…imagine that! It’s the translated name of my blog. (wink) Rosella, if you could please e-mail me your address…I’ll get this out to you ASAP. Basic Grey was hands down the favorite paper winner with many people having a difficult time to choose. Crate Paper, Cosmo Cricket, My Mind’s Eye, Stampin Up and many others were mentioned often as well! AS for me…I’ve turned into a bit of a paper addict! Basic Grey is probably my favorite as I buy everything they make, but that very yummy Crate Paper and Cosmo Cricket and My Mind’s Eye are all a very close second! Thanks so much everyone for visiting my blog and commenting. I really enjoyed hearing from you all! Hope you all had a wonderful weekend. Gorgeous weather finally showed up where we are and we enjoyed every minute of it!

I’ve been having fun lately playing around with different styles of cards. Some are simple, some more complex, a lot are stamped but I’ve also been giving rub-ons a whirl. It is a challenge to step out of your usual “box” and try something different. This card uses no stamping at all. I was inspired by the fun stripes of this paper to make a fun ribbon border. I love the fresh spring look.

Daisy Hi

I love this fun Pheobe paper by Basic Grey. I just love all the colors and designs and movement of it. To not take away from the paper, I kept the overall design simple. The paper was adhered to a  top hinged 4.25″ x 5″ card  base. I cut a piece of adhesive sheet to size and then adhered one side to the patterned paper. After removing the top paper from the adhesive, I layered on fun coordinating ribbons until the adhesive was all covered up. I then, carefully trimmed away excess ribbon from the edges of the paper. Because the adhesive is so sticky, the edges are fine finished that way. I added a fun little “Hi “sentiment from Basic Grey Wholy Cow rub-ons. I added my very favorite Prima flower from the Martinique Collection…I just love that celery center and attached it to the card with a silver button brad from K & Company. Quick, easy and so much fun! Paper & Rub-ons were purchased from Jacksonbelle and brown velvet ribbon, dotted celery ribbon & stitched Olive ribbon from Starlitstudio.