My First Tuesday Trigger

One of the blogs I look forward to reading every day is Moxie Fab World. This blog has many features I enjoy, but one regular feature is the Tuesday Trigger. On Tuesdays, blogger Cath Edvalson supplies a picture to be used as inspiration in a papercrafting project. While I often mull over ideas in my head, I never seem to get anything made. This week, I have finally, actually, created a project based on the current Tuesday Trigger, Type Hype. As soon as I saw this picture,

I knew it was the perfect inspiration for a birthday card for a friend who just finished her first novel. The color combo is fun and funky, and who can resist a vintage typewriter?

I launched right in and created this card:

Pretty cute, huh? I like it, but in my efforts to better my design skills, I knew I could improve it. I felt that the color panels seemed a little heavy, so I had the idea to lighten it up by using a dotted background with a vellum overlay. I punched a zillion little circles, and here is my second attempt:

Again, I was pleased. I liked the look of the dots (reminiscent of the typewriter keys) and the vellum (remember when typing paper was really thin?). I felt that printing the typewriter on blue cardstock added balance, and when I realized how much black seam binding looked like a typewriter ribbon, I was just giddy.  A couple of things were bothering me, though. One was that the dots were a little uneven (I had eye-balled their placement), and the other was that I had decided my text should read "deserve" in place of "have." Hence, card version three:

It's very similar to card two, but this time, I made a little template in MSWord for gluing my dots in place. It is a series of circles (aligned, distributed, grouped), printed in light gray. I made the change in the wording, and I found a typewriter image that was a little more modern, more in line with the trigger typewriter. 

Inside, in a typed font, it reads, "Wishing you a letter-perfect day." I can't wait to get it in the mail to my friend for her birthday in a couple of weeks. Thanks for the inspiration, Cath, and thanks for looking!