Picture Perfect Focal

Today's card demonstrates another possibility for card focals. Use pictures you have taken!  This can make for a quick and easy card.  Here's how I did it:

• Started with a blank purple swirl card from Hot Off the Press
• I cut a couple of purple strips for borders, one thin, one wider - each cut to the width of the card. I cut another out of lighter purple a bit thinner than the wide one and using a deckle-edge cutter. I glued this to the center of the wider border.
• I then wrapped 1/8" purple satin ribbon around the wide border - at both top and bottom as shown, fixing it with tape in the back.  I added the purple ribbon in the center of the narrow border in the same way.
• I cut the picture so there was a thin white border around it, then mounted it on a white cardstock rectangle, which was then mounted on a purple one.  I added a purple ribbon near the bottom of this, adhering in the back with tape as before.
• Now all I had to do was glue the pieces to the card as shown in the picture, and then write my greetings with a purple pen (I used a Sakura glaze pen).