This is my card for today's inspiration challenge. I loved all the black and white checks, but couldn't come up with an idea to use them. I went with this little bag for a cell-phone - http://www.mackenzie-childs.com/imag.../ME_P13234.jpg .
I haven't quite carried out my original idea, but for the moment this will do.
I used a very pale green pearlescent card base. Then I took a piece of the back of a pad of paper cut a bit smaller, and covered it with blue silk dupion. For the flower I cut five petals from some handmade paper, and curled them slightly and glued them together at the centre. The orange bit is a length of organza ribbon which I gathered with a needle and thread and pulled up into a ruff. Then I just added a brad which I covered with Glossy Accents and then gold micro-beads. Two leaves cut from mulberry tissue and crimped, and that was it. As I said, not quite what I had in mind, but I'm coming down with a cold and creativity is at a low ebb. I'd like to try this again.
Thanks, Stef, for the challenge, and Anne for suggesting it.
I see, now I look at my original again, that I should have had an orange centre and gold ribbon. Oh well - I always was aiming for a Pheasant's Eye Narcissus, not any old jonquil
Date: Saturday, December 27, 2008 GMT Views: 1064
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Registered: September 12, 2007 Location: Wake Forest, NC Posts: 61357
Sat, Dec 27, 2008 @ 8:28 PM
Sabrina, this is so gorgeous. To be perfectly honest, I love your card even more than the bag you used for inspiration! I am in awe of how you could take a bag and come up with something as fabulous as this card. This is nothing less than a work of art, girl!
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Sun, Dec 28, 2008 @ 8:24 AM
OMG, this is beautiful! Love that silk and your card is perfect the way it is! tfs
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