Day 1 of Pattern Play

I finally got around today to doing my "homework" for this online card class.  Between parent conferences and battling the flu this week, I spent a lot of time on the couch catching up with the Biggest Loser.  :)

Anyway, day 1 was "Basic Tips."  Kristina Werner shared her formula of "large/med + small + 'solid'".  I never would of thought of using a "formula" to match up pattern paper together so this is a great tip I learned.  I also decided to use the Simon Says Stamp March card kit which I hadn't gotten around to playing around with either, and also some stamps from Papertrey Ink.  Here is what I created:

I modeled my cards after Kristina's cards and decided to create some Mother's Day cards since that is right around the corner.

Card on the right: Kristina had a tri-circle die she used to create three windows - I do not have that die so I opted for punching three circles and stamping directly on those and adhering with 3-dimensional adhesive.  I felt it needed a pop of color so I added the mustard washi tape over the "solid" pattern paper I had on the card and added the heart to match.  Now that I'm seeing a picture of it, I think I will change the pattern circle on the bottom to a pattern that will fill up the circle better.

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