Pretty card for The Card Concept #52

YAY for The Card Concept as it (you/they) celebrate their 2nd Anniversary!  Two years is a goodly long time in terms of being a card challenge – so many come and go – such a happy event worthy to be rejoiced along with!  I created my card with the theme of being soft and feminine, using text and using the tiny flowers.

Here’s the image we are offered for The Card Concept 52 – isn’t it sigh-worthy?  I was not certain I could live up to it but I gathered some supplies I thought might work and jumped right in. 

I fell in love with these little crochet flowers when I saw them on a hairband in the thrift store.  What – for a whole 15 cents I managed to salvage a dozen or so flowers and leaves.  I carefully soaked them and cleaned them and set them aside for just such a day as this.  I came across this paper a bit ago too, and caught the flowers out of the corner of my eye (I tend to leave a few supplies that inspire me laying right near at hand while the artistic inspriation is upon me) and when this challenge came up I just knew this was the day to bring it all together.

I trimmed the designer paper (sorry no ID on this one) to just smaller than my cardstock face.  In the meantime I soaked the ribbon lace strip in some weak tea to age it.  I used a Martha Stewart punch for the top of the sentiment and trimmed it to fit.  I stamped the sentiment on – an Ali Edwards Technique Tuesday stamp.  I bumped up the sentiment layer using foam tape then began glueing and arranging flowers. In the end I added some more “aging” using a Tim Holtz distress ink in Tea Dye.

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Two Card Challenges completed! Woo Hoo!

I’ve pulled off not one but TWO card challenges in the past few days despite being extremely busy.  Here we go:

Simon Says “Things that FLY”

I used a fun 6 x 6 paper from Basic Grey “Hey Boy” and I added a silvery airplane I traced and modified and cut out of shiny vinyl..  Next I added some velum cut into cloudshapes and I used some silver daubers and then added some water and pearlescent paint and voila it crackled the clouds to look 3d.  I lined them with a marker so they were more visible.  Next I layered up the Stamped Sentiment by Paper Smooches and tied the plane together with it with some bakers twine. 

The Card Concept #30 “Thinking of YOU”

I used sheet of 6 x 6 from Kristin Cronin Barrow’s Blank Canvas.  I stamped using a Hero Arts sentiment and washed over the middle part with Orange Tom Bow. 

I’ve had these sweet paper flowers around for a while – I made them myself and kind of forgot them in a drawer.  I hand cut the leaves. 

Thanks for stopping by!

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