World Spectacular

"Spectacular, spectacular...

No words in the vernacular

Can't describe this great event

You'll be dumb with wonderment

Returns are fixed at ten percent

You must agree, that's excellent

And on top of your fee

You'll be involved artistically..." ~ Moulin Rouge

I love that film!  I admit, it has a few parts that you just have to laugh at the absolute absurdity, but I love the singing, dancing, and general story line.  Plus Ewan McGregor is just so stinkin' talented!  

Today I have a bit of a card parade for you--I've mentioned a few times that I'm working my way through my designer series paper (dsp) stacks, making cards for the troops.  (Sorry, Martie--my box is still coming!!)  I thought it might be fun to show the cards I made by dsp rather than all in one go the way I did several weeks ago.  Today's parade features World Spectacular, with a few cards from the retired Big Top Birthday (because they were similarly themed packs).  Some are original, some are tweaks of other things I've seen on the interwebs, some are just flat out CASEs (Copy and Share Everything).  I made multiples of almost every card here in order to use up the pack--I have a few scraps left that I'm still trying to work out what to do with (recycle? make a few more cards?)--the scraps are mostly in the 1"x4" size range, so probably won't do much more with them anyway.  But I hate to waste them!!

 I love, love this card--so simple, so clean, so easy!!  It was a perfect way to use up scraps.

Full panel cards are so efficient--12 cards per two sheets of the design in a full pack.

 This design makes 16 out of two full sheets--that was a lot of little balloons to cut out!!

Two of the sheets had faux adverts you could cut out and use as embellishments or focal points--I cut up as much as I could and made these cards with them (I made some in duplicate)

 Another easy card x 12--the little faux ribbon ends were easy with a square punch!

Another card from the faux adverts pages.

 I admit, I had a hard time figuring out what to put with this design, but I think the butterflies/sentiment ended up working out well.

CASEd the catalog.

 (I know I posted this one a while back, but it still came from the same pack, so...)  CASEd from Kim Van Diepen.

And from Big Top Birthday:

 These three hardly have any stamping on them!  I just used the dp as the focal point and stamped the sentiments from Up Up and Away.

This is one of my favorites from this lot--it turned out way better than expected, and the scrap of dp I thought would go to waste ended up being the perfect thing!

These are 5.25x5.25, so big cards, but I just thought the images were too perfect to try and trim down to standard A2 size, so I made it work.  I just stamped the sentiment down in the corner.