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Hello, friends!   I have a bright and cheerful card to share with you.  The card is for the current Less is More challenge and uses this month's sketch from The Craft's Meow.   The Less is More challenge this week is paper piecing.  One of my favorite crafting techniques is paper piecing.  I had lots of ideas as to what I would do, but since my shoulder is bothering me today I decided to go with a pretty simple paper piecing idea.

The color palette for the card is based on patterned paper from Echo Park 6x6 pad called "Hello, Summer".  The papers came along with my June Key Ingredients kit from Taylored Expressions.  I stamped the open style flower from The Crafts Meow set "Simply Delightful" on some solid pink and orange papers from the pad using dark pink ink.  The pink image was trimmed out entirely and then the center from the orange one was trimmed out.  The two were adhered using a foam dimensional and the little blue button (also from the KI kit) was added to the center.  The tag was diecut from the reverse side of the solid pink paper using my ODBD tag die.  The zig-zag piece was die cut using a My Favorite Things die.  I cut a 2" square of white cardstock, stamped the sentiment using green ink and then inked to the edges with the same ink to give the piece a bit more definition on the tag.  The flower and the zig-zag were then adhered to the tag.  It was a bit of a trick to tie the ribbon around the card.  Once that was done I adhered the tag using more foam dimensionals and then the entire card piece was attached to the card base.  I think there is enough white space to make Chrissie and Mandi happy while following the layout of the sketch.

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Supplies:  Cardstock:  PTI white; Patterned Paper: Echo Park Hello, Summer; Stamps:  The Crafts Meow; Ink:  Stampin Up! & Memento; Ribbon and Button:  Taylored Expressions June KI kit; Dies:  My Favorite Things & Our Daily Bread Designs