Pocket Card~A Place to showcase a scallop flower

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It starts with a Scallop Square cut from the Big Shot that is what determines the size of this card.  Then I picked out some Sweet Pea DSP which determined the colors of my card.  I have been playing with the scallop flower and Stampin' Up! had just posted a video tutorial of a technique for us called Faux Suede and so I just had to make it into one of these flowers. Here is a close up.  What I like is because you are splitting the cardstock you almost get a two-toned look on the petals.

Here is something interesting I found.  I could make my flowers a lot smaller when I faux suede the scallops first this means less bulk so I can put it in an envelope and since it's distressed the more squishing the better the flower looks. With the cardstock being thinner in weight the flower tends to shrink up in size when you distress it.  Here are a couple of samples...

 

The first one on the left is the one I used on the pocket card, you can see it's almost half the size as the original which is on the right.  The middle one is faux sueded but not "scrunched" just curled a little I even left the bottom layer with no snipping so it amost stays true to size but it has much less weight to it visually and physically.  The one on the right is the original created with "full strength" cardstock scrunched up like I showed you last week here.  So, you want to CREATE this Faux Suede Technique?  Here are some picture how to's so you can "play" along.

 

First you punch about 3 scallop circles (you won't need as many because as you will see you will get two scallops from one) take your bone folder and starting in the middle of your scallop circle run the bonefolder repeatedly from the center to the outside of the scallop circle going all around the scallop until you see the cardstock starting to curl and split into two layers at the edges.  It doesn't take too long.

Then peel the two pieces apart revealing a great "suede" finish.

 

2-2-2 for the price of 1! (this has to be sung to the jingle for...what was that...doublemint gum? correct me in my comments section if I am way off base!)

Then take your paper snips and snip between each scallop about 1/2" into the center.  Then follow my step by step from my last post here.  So you want to see what I put in the inside of this card?  Just a little something for my friend to enjoy during these cold winter days! 

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