Happy Thoughts Inside

 

I'm back but will be hit or miss the next few weeks--have some home remodeling in the works.  Dust in my hair, ink on my fingers--it's all good.

With this card I:

• Offset the frame dies for interest
• Free-formed the flower--just gathered and stitched as I went along with the sewing machine-- then coiled some copper beaded wire from my jewelry-making stash for the center
• Heated some of the stray embossing powder before noticing  then added more because I loved the effect
• Originally used a decorative stitch on the scalloped border--too busy--then put another piece over it and straight-stitched.

The Details:  PTI kraft cardstock and sentiment, Brilliance Graphite Black, Stampendous black embossing powder, mystery designer papers, MME Hello Brad, Spellbinders border and frame dies, Robin's Nest Dewdrops, BoBunny doily, Glossy Accents

I'm entering this in:  Totally Papercrafts #208 Make it Shine,  Simply Create Too #56 Shop in Your Stash, Daring Cardmakers Sentimental, Let's Craft & Create #89 Embossing, Card Makin' Mamas CMM81 Stack It Up, As You Like It Favorite 3D Texture & Why, Papertake Weekly Anything Goes, Shopping Our Stash #141 3-2-1 (3 dewdrops, 2 Spellbinder frame dies, doily), Sentimental Sundays #196 Sketch  and Dream Valley #76 Vintage