Craft Roulette #127: Pretend Strips of Wintery Patterns!

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I had a little Friday Night FUNN with Mary at Craft Roulette last week! That show is a blast. Challenges are my favorite way to create, which is why I love the daily Splitcoast challenges so much. There's no such thing as a creative rut if you have a challenge available.

So my parameters this time were super interesting:

• Pretend
• Paper Strips
• Colors of Winter
• Patterned Paper

I decided on books for the pretend element - because there's no escape like an escape into a book. I'm also pretending cats can read. Who am I to say they can't??

For the Paper Strips & Patterned Paper, I chose book pages. I cut them in strips and ink blended them with Vintage Photo Distress Ink before gluing them on my card base. On top of that I put this book die cut, cut from watercolor paper that I painted with Daniel Smith. The Colors of Winter were the blue watercolor, but also the Vintage Photo, because as I told Mary, Texas winter is BROWN. The little kitty is from this bundle, and I colored it with OLO Markers, brushing a bit of the Vintage Photo onto the book to make it match the background. The sentiment is actually a pre-printed die cut. I'm digging those!

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Here's the video:

Here are all the supplies I used:

Book Cover Die – WaffleFlower.com [ WFF ] A Little Help Combo – WaffleFlower.com [ WFF ] Essential Christmas Diecut - Black –... [ WFF ] Daniel Smith Extra Fine Watercolor -... [ BLIC ] Ranger Distress Ink Pad - Vintage Photo [ BLIC ] Fabriano Artistico Enhanced... [ BLIC ] Floral Glass Craft Mat — Glassboard... [ GLS ] MISTI Stamping Tool [ MSP | ELH ] Scor-Buddy Mini Scoring Board 9x7.5 -... [ ELH ] MIS-T Rulers [ MSP ] Rotatrim Professional Series Cutter -... [ BLIC ] Understand Blue Bundles Specials for... [ CTC ] Teflon Bone Folder - Ellen Hutson LLC [ ELH ] Storage Envelopes, Medium 25pk,... [ ELH ] CheckOutStore Stamp & Die Clear... [ CHC ] Extra Large -50 pk, Avery Elle Stamp... [ ELH ] Airtable: Organize your stamps & dies [ ART ]

Want to see the amazing gallery of how people interpreted this challenge? You can see that HERE.

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I hope your week is awesome. Loveyameanitbye.

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