Bargello Patterns

Love this idea - creating a graphic design for the background on a card. I have see so many variations of this idea and I wanted to try my own.

For this card, I used the striped pattern from Spice Cake Designer Series Paper from Stampin' Up!® I cut a strip approximately 2 1/2 inches wide and 5 1/2 inches long and I made sure that the stripe would be running parallel with the bottom of the card. If I had cut the paper in the other direction, you would not have see the bargello pattern.

After cutting the strip, I used the Stampin' Up! table top cutter to cut the strip into smaller strips approx 1/2 inch wide. Then I glued the strips on to the card front with Snail Adhesive. I made sure the at the pattern did NOT line up across the page - this created the bargello look. I continued gluing in a random pattern - moving the strips up and then working them down the other side.

I stamped the vase with the Button Buddy stamp set on Whisper White card stock, using the Stampin' Write markers to color the stamp. I matted the vase image with Old Olive card stock and attached it to the card with Stampin' Dimensionals®. The greeting is stamped on Whisper White card stock using just the greeting part of the stamp from the stamp set "Ain't Love Grand". I attached this to the card with Snail adhesive and topped it with a button attached with a mini glue dot.

Try your own! Pick up any of these supplies from my Stampin' Up! website HERE.

Happy Stamping!

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