CTMH July Spotlight Blog Hop... Color-Ready Kraft Borders

Welcome to the CTMH July Spotlight Blog Hop!  This month we are spotlighting the Color-Ready Kraft Borders.  These come in a handy pack of 50, with several different border patterns and with each at 12" long, you have so many choices.  These borders can be stamped (like I did on my card above), inked, embossed, or left as is, and they are self-adhesive which is perfect to add a quick border to any project.  Love these!

You may have arrived from Wendy's blog, but don't worry if you didn't because this is a circular hop, so it doesn't matter where you begin.

For my card, I started with stamping with Black ink using a small damask pattern from Damask Tiles onto my Color-Ready Kraft Border and built my card from there.  I love how the Kraft color peeking through works so well with the Creme Brulee color. 

I used the Two-Step Backgrounds to make my patterned paper.  I'm loving my background stamp sets, so I've been putting them to good use a fair amount lately.  Gotta get your bang for the buck, I tell ya!  I love backgrounds just for that reason.  You can totally create and then re-create something entirely different with them.  But I digress...  ;)

About my felt flower;  I recently got a new washer and dryer set from Sears for our new home and they had large pieces of black felt wrapped around each of their tops measuring about 1 metre x 1 metre.  I totally saw the potential in this "packaging material" and saved it to use it in my scrapbooking.  You can find tutorials on how to make these flowers, but basically I cut a rough circle by hand (about 3-4" in size), then cut it in a spiral starting from the outside and working in towards the center.  Then I just used my very old glue gun to glue it together and then added some white stamens to the center.  Easy peasy.

I hope you enjoyed my card.  Please continue along the hop to Mary's blog to see what she did with the Color-Ready Kraft Borders!

Happy creating!  :)

Supplies used (all CTMH unless otherwise noted):
Paper:  Colonial White, Black, Creme Brulee CS
Stamps:  You & Me, Two-Step Backgrounds, Damask Tiles
Inks:  Black, Creme Brulee
Embellishments:  Color-Ready Kraft Border -scallop shape, Mocha Opaques adhesive pearls, Black felt (unknown), White Pearl Stamen (Wedding Garden)
Punches:  2" scallop circle, 2 1/4" circle (EK)
Other:  Glue gun (unknown), 3D foam tape, ScorTape (ScorPal), Micro-tip scissors