Blogger Challenge: Week 225

This week’s blogger challenge is incorporate cardboard into your project. I came up with this fun design using cardboard as both a design element and an accent on my focal image in no time at all.

I started by stamping the to-go beverage image from the Paper Smooches Hot Concoctions set on white cardstock and coloring it just a bit with Copic markers. A piece of corrugated cardboard is attached to the image, just where the wrap to protect your hands would go. It’s set on a pair of cardstock circles using dimensional dots. After attaching an aqua strip stamped with the set’s “need to venti?” sentiment to a corrugated cardboard piece cut with a wonky square shaped die, I added the image panel over the end of the sentiment panel, accenting it with a button tied with baker’s twine.

I used a panel of coordinating dotted paper to cover much of the aqua card base. I layered a strip of avocado cardstock down the cardfront and attached a strip of brown faux suede ribbon to the center of the panel before securing the cardboard piece to the cardfront.

For more ideas incorporating cardboard, check out the links below. And, if you decide to give the challenge a try, feel free to add a link to your project to the list.

Materials Used:
from i {heart} papers: Paper Smooches Hot Concoctions stamp set, X-Press white Copic blending cardstock, Tsukineko Memento Tuxedo Black ink, Copic markers (Copic-W00, W-1, B000, B0000), Lily Bee Designs Harvest Market 6x6 paper pad, Lifestyle Crafts Wonky Squares nesting die, May Arts brown faux suede ribbon, Divine Twine Brown Sugar baker’s twine, Sticky Thumb dimensional dots

other: Aqua Mist, Ripe Avocado, and Ocean Tides cardstock, Simply Chartreuse button (Papertrey Ink); circle punches (EK Success); corrugated cardboard