Circles

I rarely am cutting it so close to a challenge as I am today. It’s Theme Week at The Paper Players and the theme, chosen by Stef, my teammate at Color Hues, is Circles. I’ve been thinking about the challenge off and on all week. Last night, however, instead of crafting, I started sorting and purging my precut diecuts, card fronts, images to color, etc. As I was working through them I came upon an envelope filled with precut black and white circles from the Simon Says Geometric Circle Dies. There was also a group of circles cut with patterned paper, and the answer to the call for circles.

Instead of sitting right down and getting to it, I ended up watching the second installment of the Ken Burns documentary on Lewis & Clark. We’re planning to drive that route in the fall, and it’s a fascinating look at the perils and challenges of exploring the west in the early 1800’s. 

So this morning, when we got home from the gym, I sat down and came up with a birthday card I’m quite pleased with. It’s a good masculine card, and I have more circles to play with later.

It took awhile to figure out how to arrange the circles, but once I die cut some squares from Ellen Hutson’s Essential Squares, the card came together pretty quickly. I attached the squares onto a panel die cut with Gina K’s Masterlayout 1, and added the circles with dimensional tape. Two small red enamel dots provide a bit of color.

The sentiment is from Memory Box’s Black Tabs series. Always a good choice when I need a premade sentiment. I still have a few hours before the challenge closes so it’s off to The Paper Players!