Friday, April 19, 2013

Lace and Ice Pastel

The Challenge this week At Joan's Gardens is to create a "girly" card working in pastels that contains lace, flowers and a bow.  For this simple card I used lavenders and light amethyst color scheme. The bow is punched from two sized oval dies from polka dot paper topped with a crystal button.  The lace is from Walmart. The filigree is Fantastic Flourish Two S2-009, a Spellbinder's die available at Joan's Gardens.  The background matting is embossed with the Paper Studio's Intricate Swirl EF. and the flowers in the center are a stamp from the Best of Flowers stampset by SU, colored with Tim Holtz Distress Markers, and covered with Iridescent Ice embossing powder.  3d Crystal Lacquer highlights the Fantastic Flourish; these products and the Tim Holtz Distress markers are also available from At Joan's Gardens Store. I considered machine stitching the lace, but I had adhered it with scor-tape, and I was afraid that it would gum up my machine needle.  I would have stitched that with white satin embroidery thread with a straight stitch, though if I had adhered that with a different product.  Scor-tape and all Scor-Pal products, are also available at Joan's.  Note: Lavender does not photograph well, so this picture isn't really representative of the softness and femininity of this particular card,



3 comments:

  1. Very pretty, and very girly. Love the lavender and lace.

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  2. Love all the frills and that pretty big bow. This is gorgeous. Thanks for another entry in our weekly challenge at Joan's Gardens. We love seeing your gorgeous cards.

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  3. Wow! Beautiful card. I am with Selma...love the bow!

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