Rockabilly Cards and a Fan Spotting

One thing that I love (out of many!) about the Rockabilly line is the great patterns on the papers. For today's posting, I decided to play with those patterns in the round by creating accordion flowers with them. It's easy to change the size of the flowers by just cutting a narrower strip of paper. The striped paper in the collection provided the perfectly sized strips of paper to make a variety of sizes of accordion flowers. I used several of these strips on this thank you card.


I also used wavy edged scissors to cut into the green strip a little bit and that gave the flower some dimension on the outer edge. This dimension is more obvious by cutting along the pattern on the B side of the cherry paper and can be seen in the white flower below with the points on it.
This card also uses two of the designs on the B side of the red paper - the guitar and a patterned strip with lines on it that has been made into the largest of the accordion flowers. That flower has been folded on the lines of the pattern and stands out a bit from the others. You can make the folds further apart or closer together and that will effect how far the flower stands up from the paper and how long you need your strip of paper to be to fold the flower into the circle.


Also, today I'd like to point your attention to a Paper Trunk fan, Dawn Perkins. Not only does Dawn include Rockabilly flair in her super rockin' blog banner at Mojo Mayhem, she's used the papers to create this fantastic Rockabilly page about her son's Halloween costume. I love how Dawn's used the jounaling card on the page and her little bits of paper, twine, buttons, and Paper Trunk Flair scattered around the page. That zoot suit is fantastic and goes with the papers so well. Thanks for sharing your love of Paper Trunk with us Dawn!

If you are a fan of Paper Trunk and have created a project using Paper Trunk, be sure to let us know in the comments. You just may find your blog and project featured on our blog. Thanks for stopping by! Rachel