Just Saying Hi

Here's my card for the new clean and simple challenge blog CAS-ual Friday's first weekly challenge. This week's theme is "texting skills." I used a little text patterned paper along with a fun vintage style telephone image for my clean and simple card.

The Hero Arts phone image is stamped on white cardstock and carefully cut out. I attached it to a circle of text patterned paper from Echo Park's For the Record line, using dimensional dots to raise it just a little. It's hard to see in the photo, but I (painstakingly) machine stitched around the edge of the circle to add some texture and interest before setting the image in place.

The circle is set on a kraft card base. I ran a strip of dotted paper along the bottom of the cardfront before putting the circle in place. A strip of red velvet ric rac stretches across the top of the patterned paper panel, ending a little before the end of the card and held in place with a single staple. The "just saying hi" sentiment is stamped in black ink so it curves around the image panel. A black button, tied, with some black baker's twine, finishes things off.

Materials Used:

from i {heart} papers: Hero Arts Just Saying Hi stamp set, Echo Park For the Record Collection Kit, Spellbinders circle die, May Arts velvet ric rac, Divine Twine black baker's twine, Zva Creative dimensional dots

other: Crumb Cake cardstock (Stampin' Up!); black button (Michaels); sewing machine; stapler