Happy Weekend all,ya'll! And thanks to you, Stef for gettin' inspired to inspire us! When I perused the Heather Bailey fabrics, I just knew I'd go to my MME big flower 'girls' for this challenge...and that's exactly what I did.
My flower is cut from MME 'Bliss' FRIENDS paper. I embossed it with UTEE and cut and ruffled those petals. I explored creating an underlayer of SU blush blossom hand tracing the shadows the flower cast. I randomly stamped the texture stamp from 'Art of Life' onto the bb with Tim Holtz worn lipstick. I also used the same stamp at the top and bottom of the bg paper. This bg was an experiment ages ago with the crackle paint in Old Paper...for the life of me I can't remember where I was going with it...but today it provided the perfect color and texture for my star, the bloom! And I was able to use this fabUlous quote from Sophia Loren: Mistakes are part of the dues one pays for a full life. AMEN!!! I matted this mistake on black linen cs and distressed the edges...next a layer of aqua paper with tiny white dots and then finished off with Basic Grey "PEONY" from the sultry collection. I parted with a snip of vintage black cotton eyelet scallop lace down the left side.
I'm not afraid of mistakes, are you? Thanks for your comments...
Date: Saturday, April 19, 2008 GMT Views: 803
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Registered: October 15, 2007 Location: Birmingham, AL Posts: 38718
Sat, Apr 19, 2008 @ 12:29 PM
No mistakes here, Susan! This is outstanding! Another amazingly creative and finely detailed card! I love the colors together! That sentiment is wonderful!
Registered: August 7, 2007 Location: North Carolina Posts: 28113
Sat, Apr 19, 2008 @ 12:38 PM
Susan, as always your art amazes me. I love your embossed flower with the shadows in the bg... love all the texture you have created... but most of all I love that you used this sentiment with this challenge. Don't know if you had heard this but I used to teach quilting eons ago, and a little trivia was that in colonial times they used to purposely make a mistake in the quilt somewhere and they called that their "humility" square. How appropriate when one of the inspiration pieces was a quilt! Anyway... love the card and love the truth to the sentiment! I might not be "afraid" of mistakes but I sure do hate to make them... but now I know something great can be made of them!
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Sat, Apr 19, 2008 @ 1:41 PM
This flower really "got" to me too! Lovely! Great job!
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Sat, Apr 19, 2008 @ 4:13 PM
What a fabulous quote ... oh so true ... how do you know what you really want unless you've figured out the things you don't want ... lovely bloom too ... wonderful inspired card.