Something different….

 

 

Hello everyone, I hope you enjoyed our little blog hop at the weekend, thank you so much for all your lovely comments and we’ll be announcing tomorrow which blogs had the hidden prizes

 

I appreciated all your views on the 2 versions of the card - there were mixed opinions from you on the clouds and butterflies and I think it was probably about half half for each version 

 

I don’t think I’ve ever made a card and not ended up pulling at least 1 bit off that’s been stuck on and end up tearing it. I lay it all out first too before committing to stick but it just never seems to come together until I’ve messed about with it a bit! Those flowers and ribbons hide a multitude of sins lol

 

 

This is a bit different for me, unusually I didn’t have anything anything specific to make so was just playing with some lovely papers and didn’t want to cover them up with an image

It is quite hard to fill all the space when you don’t have a main character  …and again I kept adding and taking away bits, just never quite happy with it

 

 

 

 

 

There seemed to be too much white space around the sentiment so I stamped around the edges with Victorian Velvet distress ink and an inkadinkadoo stamp.

Then the edges were a bit messy so I used 2 different sizes of the labels 1 die and made a frame in a contrasting paper

I might do this again, not sure about the stamping but I do like the effect of the frame

 

Here’s what else I used;

The gorgeous papers are from a Tilda pad

Swirls - Memory Box die

Flowers cut with a Crealies die

Lace from The Ribbon Girl

Sentiment is a Penny Black stamp

Frame and shapes cut with Spellbinders Labels 1

 

 

I appreciate all your feedback so I’d love it if you’d let me know what you think …it’s the first time I’ve done anything like this!

 

 

Have a lovely day everyone