I finally got an opportunity to try this intriguing herringbone technique from the Technique Junkie Newsletter, and I was inspired by the quilt Kristina Werner mentioned in her latest color inspiration challenge (#57). So I used her colors, most of which were present in SU!’s retired Walk in the Park DSP: deep red, coral, baja blue, mustard, saffron, and white.
I cut the strips of designer paper 3/8″ wide and glued them to a 3-3/4″ x 5″ piece of Whisper White card stock. I matted the herringbone pattern with More Mustard onto a Riding Hood Red card. The birthday sentiment was stamped with More Mustard ink and punched out, then stamped again with Riding Hood Red ink so that I could add a popped-up, red ‘happy birthday’ to the tag. I punched a hole in the tag and ran a piece of grosgrain ribbon through it, then attached the tag to the card. The finishing touch was a small piece of ribbon with pointy ends that I attached behind the tag with mini glue dots.
Thanks for stopping by!
Stamps: Terrific Tags Punch Box
Paper: Riding Hood Red, More Mustard, Whisper White, Walk in the Park Designer Series Paper, Candy Lane Designer Series Paper
Ink: Riding Hood Red, More Mustard
Accessories: Tag Punch, Small Tag Punch, Baja Breeze Striped Grosgrain Ribbon, Crop-A-Dile, Mini Glue Dots, Stampin’ Dimensionals
8 responses so far ↓
1 lynn // Jan 8, 2010 at 9:24 pm
The papers you have used and the design is fab..Great birthday card:)
2 Nellie // Jan 9, 2010 at 8:59 am
Love this technique, great card!
3 Pat (mspfd) // Jan 9, 2010 at 10:59 am
Fabulous. Love the wonderful technique and fab ribbon treatment!
4 Courtney // Jan 9, 2010 at 2:53 pm
Way cute! Love that technique!
5 Adriel // Jan 9, 2010 at 6:54 pm
What an interesting card that technique creates! A great way to use a variety of colors! Great job! =)
6 Alicia (scrappa) // Jan 10, 2010 at 11:00 am
So well done. Lovin’ it!
7 Steph // Jan 10, 2010 at 3:07 pm
So cool! Love the technique and I think it works great with these colors!
8 JoLynn // Jan 17, 2010 at 11:59 am
Wow! Great ribbon technique! I will definitely be “borrowing” that idea.