Happy Spring! Here is this week's card for Operation Write Home's sketch #217. The focal point for my card is a tag that I recycled from my husband's jeans. I distressed the tag and used the banner to cover up the name of the jeans. In looking at the other cards that have been posted ... I hope I have gone too far out of the box.
My swap group is finally back up and running this year and we were tasked with doing a twisted card. I'm not sure that I really like the look and I felt like I was wasting a lot of card stock but if you're interested in making one you can follow along with Kelly Gettelfinger.
For this month's technique swap I used versamark to highlight one of the embossed chevron rows and then applied clear embossing powder. Then I stamped the shell background using the By the Seashore set and covered the image with a piece of vellum to tone down the dark color. The crab came from the same set and was cut out by hand.
