What a challenge! This is another one of those where all my toys are taken away and I feel like I'm being punished. So I kept telling myself, "these types of strict challenges are good for me". And I kept hearing the Spoonful of Sugar song from Mary Poppins. You know, about taking your medicine. That's kind of what this reminds me of.
Anyway, I hope glitter is allowed; I didn't see it on the No-No list, so I used it. It had to have something, lol. So the eyelet part was ok, but I'm kinda ribbon challenged. We have this understanding where I only use it in emergencies and preferably only in a straight line. No bows or fancy stuff. I attempted a bow and that really did not look good. All wonky and lopsided. So in frustration I cut it in pieces and this is what you get. All I can say is it looks better that the bow.
Along w/ the ribbon dysfunction, I have a problem w/ easy cards. This card really would have been easy, if only someone else had made it. After I did the center piece I tried sponging around the edges and hated it. Now the smart thing would have been to start over. Right! I hate to start over. I cut the edges off. Then it looked too little. So I added some off center panels on top and bottom. Then the sentiment looked odd. So I stamped it again and added a white layer. Y'all probably understand why my easy card took fah-eh-vah!
All images and glitter are Sparkle N Sprinkle. I stamped the ornaments first w/ the neptune ink, then shifted slightly and stamped again w/ the cardinal ink. I highlighted a little w/ the white gel pen. I stamped a snowflake trio w/ neptune on some of the open area then dotted on the glue pen and sprinkled w/ glitter. Then added the panels behind (plz see paragraph above). Attached the white panel and the eyelets. Attached the dp. Then did the ribbon thing (plz see paragraph 2 above, lol). Attached to a wine red card and called it quits. TFL and I really need a hard challenge now. These easy ones just take too much time.
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Date: Friday, October 17, 2008 GMT Views: 2642
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