Rodeo Birthday Mosaic

A friend asked me to make a cowgirl birthday card for her sister.  When I asked what colors, she sent me this picture.

 

 

This week I saw an adorable scrap quilt my friend Nicole made, and I mentioned to her it would be fun to try something like that with paper scraps.  She said to give my gelliprint stash a try.  

I thought it would be fun to combine both ideas, so I shopped my Gelliprint stash for the colors in the image, not worrying about patterns.  I will note that the turquoise looks a lot more greenish as I write the post than it did looking at the color inspiration photo I had printed out (which you can see in photos below).

 

 

 

Next, I used a 1 1/4" square punch to punch several of each print. 

 

 

Then I relatively randomly used adhesive to attach them to a piece of typing paper.

 

 

While I loved the resulting pattern, I realized my choice of a larger square wasn't quite going to work well when I was at a card size, so I started over, this time using a smaller triangle punch.

 

 

This time my "paper quilt" looked like this.

 

 

I trimmed it down and used two of the same gelliprints that are in the mosaic to complete this week's Freshly Made Sketch.

 

 

The boots and hats are 3-D stickers.  I used an old woodblock sentiment from Catslife Press.

 

Comments

[Jen Brum]

Oh wow! This card is amazing and you've done so much work! That patchwork panel is amazing. Love the cowboy boots and hat! So fun! Thanks for joining us this week at Freshly Made Sketches!

[Colleen Begley]

I love the "quilted" background. Super cute card.

[Karren Johnson]

This is fabulous! Your quilted background is so very clever! Thanks so much for joining us at Freshly Made Sketches.

[Cécile RIBON]

Wow! That quilted panel is absolutely amazing! Thanks for joining us at FMS