This card is for Shawn, who in a previous life was my step-daughter and became the daughter of my heart (since I only had 1 child, a boy). As she has grown into womanhood, she is now my dear friend as she has a mom and doesn't need another one. I am so proud of her and I thoroughly enjoyed making this card especially for her.
It was an interesting card to make and challenged me! I had not tried inlaying and leaving part of the cut out. I added the piece to the top of the flourish as it looked a little too flat and felt like it needed a little dimension! The other flourish piece with flowers at the bottom, I added to cover the end of the embossed piece. The flowers are made from a delicious piece of pearlized paper with small de-bossed butterflies, which you cannot see. That paper was a gift from a Splitcoast friend, Darnell. The lovely ivory pearl paper that the rest of the card is made from, is another gift from another Splitcoast friend, Nancy(an early b-day gift). I used the Spellbinder edge dies to create the space around the embossed piece. I used the SU lace edge die to soften the harsh edge across the top. Punch Bunch provided the flowers in three sizes, formed with the stylus and pad. This card sort of evolved as it went along because the Swiss dot piece and the SU lace piece at the top were not part of my original design. Then those random pearls just jumped onto the page... this card is such a good example of me not being able to stop from adding MORE! It was so hard to capture the pearly wonderfulness of this card in a photograph and IRL that paper is SOOO pretty....
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Date: Thursday, February 19, 2015 GMT Views: 4403
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