Polka Dot Baby Girl - MIM #244 - Score Lines

Had a busy week, but finally had a few moments to put together a card for Papertrey Ink's Make It Monday challenge. Laurie has a great video here, reminding us how a few simple score lines can up the interest on our cards. I seem to forget this technique, but I do like how it can add depth to white space on a card. This card is for my great-niece due next month. It started out as a CAS single layer card but a rogue spot of blue ink on my finger changed that up.

I don't normally take pictures on my window sill, but it turned very dark this afternoon and the artificial light in my room wasn't giving me the true essence of this card. I really like how it turned out and it is the first time I have used my new Fresh Snow Linen CS that I received last week.

I used score lines to create a grid on my original one layer card. I was concerned about stamping the polka dots in the right spots so I placed my stamp where I wanted it in the center square, lined up the inside corner of a small picture frame with the side and bottom score lines and then popped my 1" x 1" glass block against that corner picking up the stamp. So after that all I had to do was place my picture frame 'jig' along the score lines of each square and use that as a guide for my glass block getting all of my dots in the same place (well almost, but it worked pretty well). After my ink 'accident' I die cut my polkdots and popped the piece up with a piece of fun foam. A silver embossed sentiment and a pretty little pink bow completed the card.

Supplies:
Stamps - Polka Dot Basics, Keep It Simple Baby (PTI)
Dies - Plain Squares (Spellbinders)
Paper - Fresh Snow Linen CS (PTI)
Ink - Baby Pink, Heavenly Blue, Buttercup (CTMH), VersaMark, Silver EP
Other - stylus, BowEasy, pink ribbon