Altered Rolodex Card

Why would you alter a rolodex card? Because you can! What do you do with them? Um, have them! :D I started a swap with some friends for altered rolodex cards. Instead of a plain card with just some info jotted down, we'll each have 17 unique cards with different personalities. :) I've received about half of the cards so far, and I'm so excited to see the rest! Being the hostess, I was able to procrastinate until the last minute. Or so. I have my design down (finally!) but I have all 17 cards to get done. Hopefully before the rest of everyone's cards come in, so when they arrive I can quickly swap 'em and send 'em.

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I got the design idea when blog-hopping (blopping?) a few days ago. Amy's ATC was perfection itself for my card! I printed these puppies front and back on Sahara Sand card stock. Aparently my new(er) printer doesn't much like cardstock, so I ended up with two pages that didn't print quite right. So then I printed two more. I then trimmed the card to shape. (That step is going to take for-ev-er with 17 cards!) I added the patterend paper (retired Rebecca Designer Series Paper) then remembered I wanted to put ribbon on, too.

I debated for a little bit on how in the world I was going to accomplish this feat, as just tying it around the card would cover my information on the back. That would defeat the purpose of the card! I cut the ribbon a little longer than the card, ran some SNAIL adhesive along it, put the ribbon along the top edge of the Rebecca paper, then gently pried the edges of the paper up to tuck the ribbon underneath.

I used the coluzzle to cut the Chocolate Chip circle and taped that down, then decided to put it *under* the ribbon. Pried up the circle, pried up the ribbon, and slid the circle under the ribbon. And oh yeah, I wanted the ribbon to look tied... So I cut a little bit to do a "faux bow" (except it's a knot) on the ribbon, pulled the ribbon up again, and tied the bit of ribbon on the other bit of ribbon. Lost yet? LOL!

I punched a Scallop circle from Pretty in Pink card stock, punched my photo with the 1-3/8" circle, and adhered the photo on the scallop. So far so good. Added some Stampin' Dimensionals to the back of the scallop and popped it onto the card. Um, not quite right. Off comes the scallop, off comes the ribbon, off comes the chocolate chip circle.

I cut the next size up circle now, adhere, trim. Lay the ribbon across, a little lower this time, pry up the patterned paper again, press it back down. Lay the scallop circle on. Still not quite enough. Decide to pierce the Chocolate Chip circle. But not about to pry everything apart again! So I go ahead and pierce through all the layers this time. It's just my "sloppy copy," so it's ok.

Good, good... loving it... add the scallop circle with dimensionals, lay brads and eyelets on to see how they'd look, and finally decided it's just fine without. And voi-lá! It's perfect! Or near enough anyway. I'm still trying to decide if I should bum a sheet of Regal Rose cardstock for the scallop, and whether or not to pierce the scallops, but this is pretty much it.

Now to make 17 more...