Well, here is my card for today's Ways To Use It challenge- use eyelets in a different way. I have had some really cool jumbo colored eyelets for awhile and thought I would pull them out. Two of the colors that they come in are a pumpkin pie orange and an old olive green, so those are the colors I used for today's card.
I decided that a good way to use my jumbo eyelets would be as flower centers, and I thought it would be cool to put some rhinestone brads in the centers of them. Time Well Spent was the perfect set for eyelets, the flowers have big centers and wouldn't be overwhelmed by the hardware. The flowers and butterfly were all stamped in basic black ink on whisper white cs. They were colored with Stampin' Up markers (in pumpkin pie and old olive) and were cut out. They are all adhered to the cardfront with dimensionals. On the large flower and butterfly, I added some Patina Stickles, so they would have a little extra bling. I used my crop-a-dile to add the eyelets. In the green eyelet, I put an orange rhinestone brad. And in the orange eyelets, I put green rhinestone brads. The large bg is Stitched and is stamped on whisper white cs in old olive ink. This panel is matted with old olive and pumkin pie cs. The sentiment is stamped in basic black ink on whisper white cs, the flowers were colored with the pumpkin pie SU! marker. The sentiment panel was also matted with old olive and pumpkin pie cs. I also got to use some of the new striped grosgrain ribbon and let me tell you, that stuff is AWESOME!!!
This was a pretty easy card, the only tough thing was cutting out the flowers and butterfly (notice the lack of antennae, that was an oops!). Thanks for looking and I hope you like it!
Date: Thursday, April 10, 2008 GMT Views: 1334
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Fri, Apr 11, 2008 @ 7:19 AM
Wow! This card has a lot of zing! Love the colors and the beautiful way you used the small eyelets on the flower and butterfly! Love the combo of the large eyelets and the rhinestone brad! Great card!
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Registered: June 10, 2007 Location: BC Posts: 44872
Sat, Apr 12, 2008 @ 5:53 AM
You are right!! These colours look great together,and who'd a thunk it??? Fabulous card with these fun colours and flowers - they are darling!! Great rhinestone brads - I always say - a little bling ( or a lot ) is a good good thing!! Love it Dorothy!!