Current location:	Antofagasta, Chile
Current mood:	dorky
Entry tags:	artwork, basic grey, card

Pastel Paisley
Hello everyone! :) It's a cloudy and cold sunday here in Antofagasta, it seems that spring sure it's taking its time to arrive. I don't really care, summers are SO HOT here that I'm not looking forward to it, but I do like that daylight lasts more.

Anyway, it's the beggining of october and that also means the "beggining of the end" for us, law students. In october starts the last period of tests at my faculty and then, in November, final exams begins. Chaos, collapses, ultimate doom and etc.

So, I won't be able to do as many projects as I'd like but I'll keep updating and making cards and ATCs. I'll try to make more projects on weekends so I have more things to post on the week (every second day or so). I have my tests on fridays/saturdays morning, which would leave me weekends to rest and be crafty.

Well, onto today's project. This is a failed Trifold card that turned into a Criss-cross card :) On July I made a card for my dearest friend yuih. My intention was to make a trifold card, but I screwed up and scored wrong on the right side. I finished the card how I could and then I saw this whole "Criss-cross" card thing invading the blogs and galleries. I felt so smart because I had made something similar by mistake and decided I would try to make a criss cross card "again" :p

I started this card with this gorgeus paisley patterned paper from the Lilykate collection of Basic Grey. I have a small pack of 6x6 lying around for months and had only used it for a few projects. This paper deserved more love <3 I grabbed also one of the non-patterned sheets from the pack to cooordinate. The indigo (?) and light green cadstock are from a local paper pack (which I have to buy more, it has saved me many times already!).

Card base is a 4"x12" piece of indigo cardstock, scored at 4" and 8", in order to make a nice square criss-cross card. Then I cut the diagonals in the squares left of the side (so the whole piece looks like a trapezoid). Then I cutted a 3,75" square in the patterned paper and cut it diagonally, so the triangles would leave a 1/8" margin. Glued the flaps together and a small portion of the bottom of the card (so the insert wouldn't fall, LOL).

For the insert I cut a 3,5"x4,5" piece of the light green cardstock and added a 1" strip in the yellow paper, which I scalloped with my corner rounder (can't you tell I'm addicted? :D). I added a beige fabric flower and a paper flower I dyed myself with COPIC BV02 so it'd match the paper and added the small blue brad (since I don't have a small punch to make the hole for the brad, I used a pushpin to make a small hole on the paper). Then I adhered a small square of kent paper to write a sentiment.

Finish touch was the small light blue rounder clip with the tied ribbons, which are scraps my mother gave me because she does ribbon embroidery and always ends up with little pieces of ribbon here and there. The knot was hard, because the scraps are the size you see them in the picture, I didn't cut any of it.

Oh, and while I was enhancing my picture in Photoshop I decided to make myself a watermark :) Fonts are free from DaFont.com (Mutlu & 04b_03) and there's a small butterfly brush in the background (for now, I'll make myself an illustration soon). The watermark is actually pretty small (200px) but I enlarged 250% with Photoshop and it didn't got screwed, yay! I defined the watermark as a brush for PS so I could use it with any color ;p

I was thinking about making a small tutorial/walkthrough about how I clean my pictures in photoshop to be posted or about how I made my watermark (or maybe both, I don't know). I hope someone is interested :)