OCC Challenge - Anything but Square

Hi everyone!

Today's OCC Challenge from Lynda is to make a card that is NOT a square or rectangle. You're all welcome to play along...and be sure to check out the samples from my fellow OCC girls: Amy, Cindy, Dawn, Jennifer, Julee, Laurie, and Lynda. We also have a guest designer this week....Laura Fredrickson!!

I picked up these scalloped circle note cards at the stamp show last weekend. They're from The Paper Cut, and they came with matching envelopes too. Gotta love short cuts!!

My card is TOTALLY inspired by a card my friend Silke made. {Hiya Silke!! I hope you like the card, my friend...because I'm sending it to ya!}

You can see Silke's gorgeous card HERE...I love the pop of red against the black and white, the embossing, scallops, satin ribbon, and her stick pin with the pearls. I hope she doesn't mind that I basically CASE'd her in my card today. I kept all those basic elements but I changed out the stamps, used Plum Pudding (just happens to be one of Silke's favorites!) instead of red, and embossed with my Swiss Dots folder instead of doing the Scor-Pal lines....I would have done the Scor-Pal thing *IF* I had a Scor-Pal. Still gotta get me one of those!

I used my Butterfly Happiness set from There She Goes...love this set! The butterfly was stamped a couple times in Plum Pudding ink, once on the base circle and then again on a second piece of white CS. I cut out the second image and popped it up on dimensionals over the base layer. Purple Stickles were added to the butterfly. The white scallop circle and the black scallop circle are each up on separate layers of dimensionals. The pierced holes on the white scallop card base were done with a piercing tool and they go all the way through the back layer too.

The inside of the card has another white circle matted against a black circle (same size as the circles on the front). I stamped another one of the butterflies from the Butterfly Happiness set at the bottom.

RECIPE ~
Stamps: Butterfly Happiness (There She Goes)
Paper: White Scallop Circle Card (The Paper Cut, Inc.), SU Basic Black, PTI Select White, PTI Plum Pudding
Ink: PTI Plum Pudding
Accessories: Purple Stickles, Dimensionals, Circle and Scallop Circle Nestabilities, SU Pretties Kit (stick pin with pearls), Swiss Dots Embossing Folder, PTI Plum Pudding Satin Ribbon, Piercing Tool
Technique: Dry Embossing, Paper Piercing

Have an AWESOME weekend!