Sukkersøtt - selvlaget mønsterpapir

The text on the ribbon is rubons.

I've hand stiched with silver thread.

Anita Thorsen is our Guest designer at Sukkersött this week, and she's challenging us to make our own patterned paper. Actually she doesn't allow us to use any not selfdesigned paper at all :)

This is how I made it:
I used white paper, masking tape, ink in soft pastell colors, a background stamp, a swirl (from Stempelglede.no) and a text from ClubStamp.

First of all I have to give Anita some credit, because she's the one that inspired me big time this time. Thanks :)

I placed the masking tape and used the background stamp.

Then I stamped the swirls with a slightly darker colored ink pad.

To make the stripes more visible, I used a sponge along the masking tape edges.

After removing the tape, I stamped the text. (It was supposed to be in light blue, but since I'm the worst stamp cleaner ever, it turned out a bit darker than planned... *lol* I hate cleaning stamps...!)

Voila - my homemade patterned paper is finished!

and all trimmed for my card.