Cluck cluck cluck...

Happy Monday everyone. Boy have we got a challenge for you this month! You're going to love this one...our very own beloved Diana at Magnolia-licious is the hostess for this challenge and she asked us to make a card using paper only! That's right!!! No ribbon, no pearls, no ready made flowers! Yikes! You know me and my flowers and pearls...this was really a challenge.

So I tried my hand and making some paper flowers and found a great tutorial in one of the Magnolia Ink Mags. and went to town. My first few were not the best, but at least I had the method down pat.

I went looking for paper and found this adorable chicken paper in my Melissa Frances Kitschy Kitchen stack. How perfect! That clinched the deal on which Image I would use so I dug up #383 Oops Tilda with her broken egg . She was absolutely made for this paper. I tried to find the chicken by Magnolia, but no one seemed to have her so I remember a Chicken image from Whipper Snapper which has been on my shelf for over a year. Well it worked out perfectly too! Hip hip hooray! Now I was cooking.

I had seen several tent cards posted lately and I decided to give it a try too. But remembering that I had to use paper only I was a little stumped when I had to figure out a way to attach my sentiment. Usually the image or sentiment is suspended from the top of the tent with a small piece of chain, but of course that was out. Here is a side view of my Tent Card.


In the end, I decided to suspend my computer generated sentiment on a very thin slice of cardstock, fitting it between the two layers of my card front. Perfect!



Here is a close-up of Tilda. She is cut out and popped onto the front with dimensionals. You will notice that I cheated on this card (shame faced) Before I even knew what had happened I had done some sewing on the edges. I hope this doesn't disqualify me!!! :-(
Well lets move on....


Here is a pic of my cute little chicken. He fits so perfectly on this card that I was thrilled to remember him. I added a couple of swirls behind him to finish off that corner of my card.


Next I added my hand made Cabbage Rose made with the same paper and a coordinating one from the same stack. My small flowers were made with my SU punch and the tiny centers were made with my 1/16th in punch. The Marianne Leaf dies completed the setting. I also added a small arrangement of those little flowers in the opposite corner.



Here is an artsy view of the card...



Please drop by the Magnolia-licious Highlites Challenge Blog to see what all the other DT have done with this challenge and get your challenge card made up and entered for a chance to win a fabulous prize from Diana.

Blessing and hugs,
Barb