I made this card for my Mom for Mother's Day. She's a quilter, and a fan of dragonflies. This card sort of incorporates the two. The dragonfly was cut from the Stamping Cricut cartridge. To give it a "quilty" sort of feel, I added the stitches around the edges with marker. Behind the cut-out, I used a technique called "Iris Folding", where you layer strips of folded paper working from the edges of the design into the center. It sort of gives the paper a quilted look.
You can find out the details of this technique at the bottom of this post. Layering all that folded paper does add a little bulk, but not as much as I feared. I covered the back side (which is on the inside of the card) with the butterfly B&T paper from the Wings Paper Pack. I think the "busy"ness of the paper conceals the thickness of those folds really well. You don't even notice it!
To finish off the front, I made an accordian flower and paired it with some Just Blooms flowers. The tag is something I created using the Unity stamp set for the background and the Tiny Typewriter alphabet to write "Mom".
I wasn't a huge fan of the Wings paper before this, but the green and black seemed perfect for this card.
Edited to add: Paper Cutz Challenge link & H2H link.
Info on the Iris Folding Technique follows.
