Hi there. I'm so glad you stopped by! Like a lot of you, I have hoarded a ton of patterned paper. So when I saw that the Double D challenge was asking for patterned paper, I decided to take a break from the UFO box and try to pare down the paper collection. I pulled out a package of paper a sweet friend sent me a few years ago. It has a lot of gold foil running through the designs. I have taken it out so many times and oohed and aahed over the beautiful patterns and carefully put them back in the package. I was determined to use some. The hardest part was choosing which pattern to use! I just cut this piece to a bit smaller than a card front and added a thin frame and hello die cut from gold foil. I punched a few tiny dots to add here and there too. The selections of paper had some printed vellum designs too and I got really brave.... Isn't it pretty? I cut a bit from the top and bottom and wrapped the sides around a piece of white cardstock, wrapped some gold twine around a few times and tied a bow. The next photo shows the gold better. I'm so glad I finally decided to put some of this gorgeous paper on a card! Our Craft Group is going to use patterned paper for our swaps next month so I think I'll be using some more of this paper. Challengs: Double D - Use Patterned Paper. Tic Tac Toe #242 - Metallic, Free, Floral Card Recipe Stamps: Ink: Paper: Patterned Paper (?), Neenah Solar White, Gold Foil Other: Yana's Wonderful Scripted Sentiments Die (Spl), A2 Thin Frames Die (SSS), Gold Twine Enjoy! If you would like to subscribe by email, please fill out the contact form in the upper right sidebar. It is also important to add [email protected] to your contact list so Google recognizes the address and delivers the updates. To unsubscribe please use the same form on the sidebar adding unsubscribe to the message. Thanks to all who have subscribed to my blog by email. Your sweet and thoughtful comments warm my heart!