Can you tell that I have CASED just about everyone I could think of??? for my Flourishes challenge card "Getting Sentimental".
The card almost does not qualify, the daffodil is way too dark. I did not mean for it to be this dark but I have trouble working with light colors and once I make a card I don't often change it. I even used a water pen after I stamped the floral image trying to tone down the fact that I was using SU cranberry crisp....yea yea I know, that is a dark color.....Maybe I will have to change it.....Anyway I stamped the sentiment over the daffodil and bordered it with a Spellbinder cut circle out of Euphoria paper. I layered over the basket weave background. The basket weave was done using a stamp given to the ladies that attended the Dream Week-end. It gives some amazing affects although it does have a learning curve to use this stamp, but WELL worth the effort.
As you can see I have not mastered using a border punch to make a square...OK I forgot how Jan showed us at the Flourishes Stamping Week-end. I did persist with several trials and many errors, now that I am finished I looked back at my paperwork to see how Jan taught us to cut.
You can see here where I got the idea for the way the image is stamped. Didn't Julie do a fantastic job.
Of course who wouldn't recognize Becca's bows???? And with silk ribbon, could that be something new coming soon to Flourishes????


After making the last card I thought I would try for another using the sentiment as the main focal image.......I feel I did a much better job this time.
I again used Basic Grey's Euphoria DP, this time adding brads and a stick pin with just a hint of ribbon, the stamped butterfly was added as a finishing touch.
All in all about a 10 minute card.
It still amazes me at how much you can see by looking at a photograph of the cards I just made. I see all the things I would change if I were to make these cards over again, which I am not. I will try to do better next time and take a photograph to look at before gluing!!!!

Have a good Sunday night, and thanks for stopping by.