Three Shades of Blue

I woke up in the middle of the night on Sunday and while trying to put myself back to sleep, I came up with a card idea for this week’s Just Us Girls Challenge: three shades of blue.

I’d like to tell you that I executed that card design with no difficulty, but if you could see my original idea there’d be little resemblance to the final card. 

This is a pretty odd angle for taking a photograph, but getting a clear photo of the six scored lines turned out to be almost as difficult as constructing the card. I started with a much older Papertrey Ink stamp “Ombre Builders.” It includes seven stamps with different patterns. I started out with the triangles, obviously not what I ended up with. You will eventually see two other cards I also created with the triangles. When that attempt failed, I turned to the tiny squares. I masked off thirds and stamped the squares with three shades of blue, then trimmed around the panel and mounted it on a strip of Enchanted Evening cardstock. It definitely needed the scored lines on both sides. Finally I stamped the sentiment from Altenew’s “Bergenia Builder” which was laying on my desk for another project.

The final step was to trim the whole panel down and add it to a card base of Enchanted Evening. My goal in yesterday’s crafting time was to create some cards appropriate for males. I think this one would work for either men or women. One of the other cards I made yesterday went in the mail this morning to my BIL, and now I have two more in the stash.