Pick & Play

On one of the message boards I frequent, they hosted a "pick and play" event where they pick a theme and list categories within that theme that you pick from.  After you've picked your choices, they go back and tell you what each one represents.   For this card I had picked items that meant I needed to make a standard fold card with a square or rectangular focal, I needed to add bling, and the colors used needed to be brown, orange & pink.  Now I'll admit that color scheme is NOT my favorite, but I was reminded of a paper pack called "Grapefruit" from HOTP that used those colors.  While I didn't purchase that paper pack (because I don't like that color combo!), they did have a freebie downloadable page of coordinating artwork that I was able to use to create this card.  In addition to those freebies, I used: 

• pink card stock
• acetate
• brown fun foam
• brown glimmer paper
• stamps (HOTP - Just a Little Greeting, Birthday Cheer, Birthday Greetings)
• distress ink (Walnut Stain), 
• Warm Chocolate Liquid Pearls, 
• "diamonds" from my diamond painting
• microbeads
• fine pink glitter (don't use this again!!!!)
• embossing folder (A2 Swirl Background by Darice)

 Here's the inside:

This next card was SUPPOSED to have been my 2nd pick & play - but I made a mistake.  More about that later.  

Materials used:

• black card stock & white card stock
• printed vellum from the 8 1/2" x 11" HOTP book called "Painted Vellum" (an old one!), 
• black & white striped washi tape
• red metallic tape
• red jewel dazzles
• artwork from Cardmaker's Instant Card Art Classic Colors & coordinating papers (HOTP)
• embossing folder (5x7 Damask by Darice)

I had a really hard time photographing these as the red metallic tape often ends up looking black.  Anyway, here's the inside:

I had a lot of fun making this because what I had picked required me to use red/white/black color scheme, vellum for the focal, and ribbon or washi tape.  Since I seldom use vellum or washi tape, it was a good challenge.  The vellum I used came as a 8 1/2 x 11 sheet with a printed ladybug border. I cut up that vellum sheet a LOT to make the card.  However, I forgot the part where this card was supposed to be a gate fold!  OOPS!  

So I had to scavenge it to make a new gate fold card.  I pulled off the focal piece and remade the card base entirely.

I did the inside quite differently, including cutting out a bunch of the remaining ladybugs and gluing them to the inside (had to draw their feelers in with a pen since cutting those out would not have produced very good results!).

 

This meant I had the base card from the original left over.  So, I added some Hunkydory cutouts a silver hearts on black washi tape, some border stickers and some silver foil tag board, and ended up with this card:

Here's the inside: