Bookmark Keepsake Card

This is the commercially made card that I received for Easter. It's a clever idea of combining a card and bookmark. The right side of the card had a line of perforation and pulled off to become a bookmark for the recipient.

So, first of all I planned a design that was one layer and with a right edge that would make a pleasing bookmark. Then after stamping I had to make that perforation line. I'm sure I have a perforation blade somewhere but do you think I could find it. So, I wound up using a seamstress tracing wheel and stratightedge to make my perforation line. 

Here's my card...

To give it a little more pizzazz I used my chalk pen to color in with white on some of the flowers and also used Clear Wink of Stella on the centers. 

That's all for this week and commercial card inspiration. Tune in next week to see what I'm creating.

TBT - Previous Years' Sale-A-Bration Products

Today's Throw Back card features products from previous years' Sale-a-Brations. The flowers and arrow are stamped using the Petal Parade stamp set. Thank You comes from the Pretty Petites stamp set. Both were Sale-a-Bration products as is the Sweet Sorbet Designer Series Paper used here. The ribbon is the retired Pistachio Pudding Ruffle Stretch Trim. It's a shame they didn't continue this in the new catalog. It does have some stretch to it but if you remind yourself to just lay it down in lays nicely on card fronts and looks so pretty.
I used one of the retired Needlepoint Border emobssing folders and my Big Shot to give detail to the piece of (retired) Summer Starfruit card stock. Now that's a color that really grew on me. When I first saw it I thought, "Yuck!" but then I used it a few times and I found myself going to it a lot. Sure hope it comes back someday!
And I have to admit this color combo is not one I would have ever thought to use. That's another reason I like the DSP; it helps me think outside my little box!