More Washi Cards

I got distracted. I know, it happens all the time around here, so I don't know why I'm surprised. Actually, I'm not surprised. I should be working on my VSN challenge cards, but nooooo, I needed to make more cards using this easy-peasy sketch from Clean & Simple:

and this time with some more of my new washi tape. While shopping for cute Halloween paper at Mike's, I found a pack of patriotic washi tapes and I just had to have it. It came with three rolls: red strips, white with red & blue stars, and white. Remember how I just said I use the tapes as packaged the first time? I lied. How do you think white tape would look on a white card base? Not so good, unless you wanted the white-on-white look, which I didn't. So I swapped out the white for a navy blue. Better.

Then I decided the red stripe was too burgundy, so I grabbed another red to use instead. Can you believe I have no red & white striped washi?! How is this even possible?!?!

Okay, now that you've felt my color angst, here's the first card:

Isn't that tape perfect for OWH?

I made two of those, then I decided to make two more, this time with the red striped tape that came in the pack. And lo and behold: it's the perfect red after all:

I love it! You'll also notice I only stamped one sentiment this time, since last time they were so wonky. I should know better.

Also, see that heart at the top? The one dealing with all the white space?  I made that. One of the tips we learned in class:

was to be inspired by shopping, but to use that inspiration and try to come up with something based on what you already have. I wanted a shiny star in the top left quadrant of my card, and planned to die-cut them and emboss them with silver or gold to make them shiny. Instead, I ended up with this heart:

I die-cut them, stuck them to a piece of scrap paper, covered them with Versamarker, and heat-embossed them with Platinum EP. It didn't cover very well, so I decided to add more EP. Um, this works when you're using a container and a spoon, but not when you're dumping it onto scrap paper and then dumping the excess back into the jar. What a mess. Times 4. But the hearts are cool, non?

Okay, I need to stop being distracted and go back to work on some VSN challenges.

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