365 Cards Sketch - A card for Leah

Here's another card based on a sketch from 365 Cards. This time I made a card for another of my bestest best girl friends, Leah. She likes purple so I made a purple card. I added yellow since I love the combination of purple and yellow together.

As you can see, I finally picked up some patterned paper! Also I got some of those mystical "punches" that I kept hearing about. I had like a gajillion points on my rewards credit card so I figured I might as well use them.

I learned a lot from making this card. Like, for example, I learned that I really, really need to purchase a glue stick, because using the wet Elmer's glue looks terrible on both ribbons and paper. Plus it makes both the paper and the cardstock bend (I had the same problem on both of the previous cards). I also learned that hand stitching beads to paper really, REALLY sucks. Like a lot. And it doesn't even look good. I thought sewing some green beads onto the card would look cute and add a little more color but I think it stands out way too much. Maybe I should have just used purple or yellow instead. Or just not bothered at all since it was kind of a huge pain for not-great results.

Anyway, the cardstock, ribbon, flowers, and beads are all from Walmart. The yellow circle (which I drew using the compass I found!) was cut from some other scissors I had bought in the set from Walmart. The punch is a "Fiskars" brand and is totally awesome. Both of the patterned papers are from that local scrapbooking store I mentioned before. I don't know the brands of anything. I think the flowers are "K & Company" or whatever. I'm way too lazy to check.