Tri Fold "Find Joy"

I signed up at SCS to do 6 Swaps in June & July. So I am hurrying to get them all done before my children get out of school for the summer and I get swamped. This is a card I signed up for, because I had done one previously in a card group. I wanted to try one on my own because these little 3.5 cards just look sooo.... cute. The Technique was posted on SCS by Beate Johns. She seems to have a lot of neat things posted on the SCS site and presents a very thorough tutorial if you want to make your own card. I chose to use the same colors my friend had selected when I made these previously, because I love the colors. I also wanted to keep the card "springy" and stay away form black & brown. For the base I used SU Barely Banana. I also used it to mat the word sentiment. SU Cool Carribean was used to mat the image base. The triangle pieces that go on the triangle folds were cut from the same SU designer paper I posted a link to in Mondays Post. I cut the cute pink flowers from a flowers using a Cuddlebug die cut, and I mounted them with My Silent Setter that a friend sold me when I was looking for a quiet way to set eyelets in the mid-night hours when everyone else is sleeping!(Thanks Lori, my DH thanks you also) I decided to mount the flower to the white base stamped with SU's Polka Dots & Petals stamp set using their Barely Banana & Mellow Moss inks. The stem was stamped using the flower from the Polka Dots & paisleys stamp set. By attaching the flower with the yellow brad, then mounting it to the CC matting allows the Cool Carribean card stock to show through the eyelet center. I think this makes the flower center look like it's two toned.

I attached the light pink dotted ribbon to the back of the card, then tied it around the whole card, before mounting the sentiment piece on the front of the card. I tucked the ribbon behind the flower and the sentiment is on dimensionals allowing the ribbon to move freely away from it when the card is opened. I sponged the sentiment piece with Mellow Moss to bring a little more of that color into the card, helping to accent the decorative paper background. The corners of the matting and white pieces of Card stock were all trimmed using SU's ticket corner punch. I just like the little extra touch it gives.

I then took my pictures and cropped them and got them ready to upload. Looking at them they just seemed to be begging for one more thing.

I decided the pink in the white print paper didn't show readily on all the cards.

I thought I would make a triangle of pink by using a Hero Arts gemstone in pink to dot the "i" of "it". The triangle helps draw your eyes to all the other pink elements of the card, the flower, the bow, & shiny little pink jewel. Which in turn guides you right to the sentiment. I think this should say find joy in everything. So, did you notice it? There was no "bling" in the first picture!