Happy Thursday! And Thursday means a new challenge over at CAS Colours & Sketches – this week it’s a sketch.

Here’s the banner which inspired my creation.

I don’t tend to put tags on my cards for some reason and I wanted to step outside the box a little by making a rather non traditional tag. As you can see, I’ve done a mirror image of the sketch by having the tag on top of the other shape. The DSP is from Pop of Pink and I made the present box with a 2.5″ by 3″ rectangle and then by trimming off two opposing corners to add a 3D look. To further add to the look of the box, I folder the DSP where the edges of the box would be before gluing it down to my piece of whisper white. The card seemed a little too empty so I added a thin mat of melon mambo to frame the card. The sentiment is from the bonus Paper Pumpkin set from April, All About Everything which I stamped in melon mambo and cropped out with one of the retired oval framelits. As I’ve mentioned before, Paper Pumpkin is a great buy, even if you’re not thrilled with the month’s kit (and that’s rare), it’s worth it for the stamp set. I popped this up with dimensionals to make it look even more like a present tag and added a bow using the also retired cotton ribbon in melon mambo. I tried to use the thick bakers twine but it didn’t have enough oomph or, dare I say, presence, for the present.

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See you tomorrow,

Liz