Patterns – Song Sparrow Papercrafts

Welcome back! It’s hard to believe but we’re already halfway through this week. Where does the time go? And speaking of stealing some time, today’s card uses a sheet of the Splendid Autumn paper pack that just makes you want to kick back in an easy chair on the breezy porch with a glass of tea and watch the wildflowers dance on the pasture, doesn’t it? Or maybe that’s just me showing my country upbringing.

This week, we’re using pattern and texture to create our card designs. And today is all about adding texture to give that extra pizzazz to a card. We’re combining the Beautiful Pattern embossing folder with the Splendid Autumn paper to create a little side glance out the window.

We get started with a simple base of white cardstock. The background panel is a quarter sheet of white cardstock that’s embossed with the Beautiful Pattern embossing folder. The focal panel is cut from a sheet of the Splendid Autumn paper pack using the Everyday Arches dies and then matted with some pastel pink shimmer paper cut into an arch just a tick bigger. The embossed backdrop is wrapped with some Petunia Pop iridescent ribbon and then adhered to the card base. And then the focal panel is adhered just slightly off-set on top with dimensionals. The sentiment from the stamp set included in the 2025 Advent Calendar is stamped in Fresh Freesia on one of the smaller banner dies from the More Messages set and then adhered with dimensionals onto to the bottom-right corner of the focal panel. A few frosted iridescent dots finish things off with a hint of twinkle.

While this card would be just fine without an embossed background, isn’t it fun to see how much more interesting and eye-catching this card is with that little extra textured detail. I hope you’ll continue to hop along on the patterns & textures design series this week!

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Basic White 8 1/2" X 11" Cardstock

[166780]

$14.00

Splendid Autumn 6" X 6" (15.2 X 15.2 Cm) Designer Series Paper

[164173]

$12.50

Pastels Shimmer 12" X 12" (30.5 X 30.5 Cm) Specialty Paper

[167198]

$10.00

12 Days Of Crafting Advent Calendar (English)

[167335]

$99.00

Fresh Freesia Classic Stampin' Pad

[155611]

$9.00

Beautiful Pattern 3 D Embossing Folder

[167097]

$10.50

Everyday Arches Dies

[164629]

$29.00

More Messages Die

[165472]

$33.00

Petunia Pop 1/4" (6.4 Mm) Iridescent Ribbon

[166203]

$9.50

Frosted Iridescent Dots

[165766]

$9.00

Stampin' Dimensionals

[104430]

$4.25

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Howdy, friends! I hope your week is off to a great start. Our weekend was super busy. So I’m off to a bit of a slow start this week. But here we are — breaking out with a new design theme.

This week is all about patterns & textures. Sometimes we forget the easiest things in our creative arsenal. So let’s shine a little light on our best crafty friends! We’re getting started with some patterns today with a combination of patterned paper and a geometric pattern on our card front. The Perennial Lavender paper and Heartfelt Hexagon punch do all the heavy lifting in today’s design.

We get started with a base of Blackberry Bliss cardstock. A quarter panel of white cardstock serves as the base for our focal panel. Using the Heartfelt Hexagon punch, I cut a hexagon of each of the patterns from the Perennial Lavender paper pack from all of the scraps I had from previous cards. I laid them out on the white cardstock to get the right orientation and adjoining patterns before adhering each hexagon in place and then trimming the overlapping portions on the edges. The focal panel is matted in Fresh Freesia to bring out some of the more subtle purple hues in the patterned pieces. A piece of the Berry Burst shiny ribbon is wrapped around the focal panel toward the bottom and tied in a bow in the center. Using a previously-cut sentiment panel from the More Messages die, I stamped the sentiment from the Cutest Crew set in Blackberry Bliss ink, leaving just enough space on the side to add a few butterflies in Fresh Freesia using another stamp from Cutest Crew. The sentiment is adhered with dimensionals offset above the ribbon. The whole panel is adhered to the card base with dimensionals, and then we add some frosted iridescent dots across the card front in a diagonal to draw the eye over the whole design.

Hot tip: if you cover an entire sheet of cardstock with the hexagons, you can create 4 cards at once with each of the decorated quarter panels. Super way to build a stash of cute cards for those last-minute occasions!

Hope you’ll continue to hop along as we find fun ways to use patterns and textures this week!

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