Big Thanks!

I am so excited to be playing along with the Stamp, Ink, Paper Challenge!  It is a fairly new challenge blog led by Justin Krieger and a very talented design team.  I have been a fan of Justin's for some time now and check his blog daily for his latest creation.  He is a very talented paper crafter and very generously shares bits about his life, family and friends.  I'll stop now before I'm accused of stalking him :) .

I've wanted to play along since the first challenge but it just didn't work out.  This week's challenge is a Tic-Tac-Toe challenge and I selected the vertical line of  ribbon or twine, thanks and blue.  I decided to include twine in my project as I have been on a bit of a twine kick lately.  I wanted to feature the twine in an interesting way as it was the "tic" in my project.  I remembered a cute technique I came across a while back to secure a 4 hole button with twine.  I selected a large brushed copper button and thought that Island Indigo was a bold enough color to balance and coordinate with the button and it is the blue my project.  I wanted to go with a patterned paper so I took a small diversion into the "free" space.  Again, it had to be bold enough to support the button so I went with a strong diagonal pattern.  With all of these strong elements my "thanks" had to make a statement, so I went with a bold thanks layered on some Island Indigo and Early Espresso die cut frames.

Well here it is, my big bold card!  It's a bit of a diversion from all of the CAS cards I've been having fun with lately.

Swing by the Stamp, Ink, Paper challenge to check out the great inspiration or why not play along.

Happy Stamping,

Dana