Thursday, May 24, 2012

Papertrey Ink May Blog Hop/Make it Monday #67 - Chevron extravaganza

 This month at Papertrey Ink, this is our inspiration for the blog hop:
For my final card, I decided to take the colour scheme and the patterns and use that as my inspiration.  Since I have the new chevron dies, I don't have to make faux chevron die cuts like I did here in this post:
So I went to town cutting lots of strips of chevrons from a patterned pack of paper that has a subtle glittery green with an overall colour scheme of black and white.  Perfect for this blog hop (and you can see in my posts of other cards that I used these patterned papers a lot for my contributions this month! :P)
I glued them all to a piece of asparagus card stock with some Tombo Mono Multi glue and then cut the overhanging pieces to make all of them flush on the card panel. 
Ah, I just love chevrons!  Thanks, Papertrey, for coming out with those this month!  It is rare for me not to stamp or put a sentiment of some sort on but I kept this one super simple and if I want a sentiment, I will stamp one on the inside when I decide what occasion this will be for!  It is definitely for my brother in law as he likes these shades ...

I will be adding this card to the Make it Monday challenge at Papertrey as well since it does incorporate lots of different patterned papers.  I love stretching myself and branching out to other styles, techniques and colour schemes.

Plus, since it has more of a masculine vibe with the dark green and fine linen, I am also entering it into the CAS Fridays challenge with patterned papers and a masculine theme.

Supplies:
Paper: PTI fine linen, My Mind's Eye Garden Vignettes, Gina K asparagus
Misc: foam dots, PTI chevron dies

12 comments:

Rebecca Deeprose said...

Great combination of patterns and very different!

Jeanne said...

Fun masculine feel!

Marybeth said...

I love the bottom edge on the first card , nice work! Smart layout too.

Leigh Penner said...

Great cards, Cara! Hooray for Chevron dies!

Chrissy Larson said...

Loving the chevrons!

Anne said...

Great cards. Love what you did with the chevrons. Lots of work but worth it.

Tracey McNeely said...

All lovely cards, the chevrons are fabulous!

Sonya said...

Nice. I think I have those dies too. Hee hee.

Paulette S said...

Very fun. I'm going to try this.

Jenny said...

The chevrons look great and fab papers too.
Thank you for playing along wth us at CASual Fridays :0)
Jenny x

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Suzanne said...

Great card, Cara! Love the manly chevrons...Thanks for playing along with us at CAS-ual Fridays this week!