Wednesday, May 9, 2012

ancient squares of coordinating paper

(that i still quite love, actually!)

i'm pretty sure that the VERY FIRST set of official "designer paper" i ever purchased-- and it has to be at least 7 or 8 years ago, when i was first posting cards to a (now sadly defunct) online gallery called lifetime moments*--was sei's "twitterpated". i saw a whole series of design team projects featuring the set, and as the fairly new aunt of miss riley elizabeth--born on VALENTINE'S DAY--i just had to have it. i cannot imagine how (and why!) i still have some left... (mostly i think i forgot about 'em!) ...but i do, and they came in very handy indeed when i wanted to make this card last night for lovely husband jeff's sister and her lovely husband:

(patterned paper: sei (yep, ALL of it, weirdly enough for me, i used just the one collection!); ink: colorbox; gem flourish: prima (cut to fit); font: mom's typewriter (printed on an inkjet clear label); label: dymo; pen: copic multiliner; adhesives: tombow monorunner, 3m foam tape)

i used another fabulous (but expired) sketch from elle's studio but i'm going to show you anyway, because i have a feeling that i'm going to use this one a few more times; for one thing, it is the PERFECT sketch for combining a bunch of patterns and/or using up scraps--like, say, if you wanted to make something for the current SOS challenge, lol?! :)


it's funny, because i think if anyone had mentioned on monday that they desperately needed** some SEI papers, i'd've immediately offered mine without a qualm. and now, suddenly, i'm thinking those babies look pretty cool again. weird, no?! ...but in a kinda good way... ♥

*i met my lovely blogging friend kathlene there; hey kathy--remember LM??! ♥
**you know, in one of those papercrafting emergencies which are so common these days! :)

8 comments:

  1. I love this. Wonderful card, fantastic details (especially the dymo strip and bling).

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  2. Super cute and fun! I also have some of that twitterpated line among my scraps and you have inspired me to bring it out and use it!

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  3. Totally might have some of that paper left too. I always liked that line. Love how you used that sketch for this card. Brilliant to say the least. But you always are.

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  4. i know i have some of this paper left... and your cute card is a lovely reminder. i'll have to dig it out and make some 'versary cards

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  5. I love it..you make it look like fresh & new patterned paper! LOVE all the mixy matchiness!

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  6. Amazing card! Oh my gosh those are old papers. I can't even remember what papers I bought first that were designer papers. hmm probably Basic Grey. Love the card. Just posted a blog post about you and my lovely album.

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  7. Lovely Lauren card ... I too have papers I hoarded instead of using ... who doesn't? But sometime they are waiting for just the right moment ... such as this ... Perfect!

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  8. A truly FABBY use of scraps. And yeah, I'm fondling all my scraps now, simply unable to part with them, even though some of them are YEARS old. Sigh.

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