Masculine Card With Patterned Paper Scraps

I set myself a challenge yesterday when I was creating my cards and that was to use the scraps left over from my Christmas In July classes, and a couple of the techniques as well.  Here’s what I came up with ….

Some leftover strips of the Christmas themed paper – Letters To Santa.  Old Olive and Early Espresso cardstock.  A touch of tearing and crimping and some ribbons.  Blokey ribbons – hmmm not sure there.  What do you think?  I’ve been tying little bundles of ribbons on everything since I got back from Convention. 

I had some more leftover strips so thought I’d make another card.  For this one I scrunched and grunged up my strips with a sanding block, and sanded the scored lines on the base card too.  I had some leftover punched circles of silver glimmer paper.   They looked a bit bright for my card so I painted them with Soft Suede reinker. 

Happy creating, Sue