Congratulations to Grace (scrappigramma2) on being crowned as this weeks Queen for the Day... you are very deserving of this honour... your gallery is full of beautiful, amazing works of art.
I chose to case this lovely card SC177 Art of Life
I used the same stamp set and similar colours and layout. Same ribbon placement and I used a corner punch - but only on two of the corners.
This works for yesterdays Ways to Use it - use paints. I painted the back of my flower stamp with Acrylic Paints - the red is "Wild Watermelon" and the green is "Jade Green". I stamped the flower a few times and then painted the stamped again and stamped it off. I used an off white linen paper. I love the texture of it. Punched out two of the corners. Matted image with Always Artichoke and black c/s. Attached my ribbon and sewed edges of panel. Made the little bow and button and sewed it to the card. Punched out the butterflies from red gemstone c/s and vellum, glued vellum over top of red, applied white liquid pearls to body. Made the background panel and sewed edges.
This will work for today's Free 4 all - collections as your inspiration.... I absolutely love beautiful pictures of flowers - I love to take pictures of flowers - I have a special picture "collection' album of my flower pictures.... where ever we go - if I see beautiful flowers my camera is out and I am taking pictures...
Plus this will work for this months fan club theme -anything that grows...
Enjoy your day Grace...
Hugs..... Pat - must go and get ready for work....
Date: Friday, May 28, 2010 GMT Views: 1174
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Fri, May 28, 2010 @ 11:46 AM
Oh my goodness Patricia I am loving this!!! I have always loved this stamp set and I love that you used acrylics!!! What a vivid and beautiful look they give! Your corner treatments are sooo pretty and I love the sewing! I am in awe of everything you do... and am so honored to have you case one of my cards! THanks sooo much!!! Have a wonderful weekend!
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Registered: November 12, 2009 Location: Living in Western North Carolina in the mountains of beauty. Posts: 2551
Fri, May 28, 2010 @ 11:49 AM
VERY PRETTY Miss Patricia... I love your flowers... and bet your book of flowers is very special...I love flowers too.. and once I started a book on trees ... and must have had about 100 or so really neat looking trees... got lost along the road of life... but remember the trees very well..
This card is really pretty.. .all your cards with this sewing on them are always so very lovely... I couldn't sew like that on cloth... let alone paper!!! And I am a quilter.. oh well.. I love these papers too.. GREAT CARD...
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Fri, May 28, 2010 @ 11:52 AM
My gosh, Patricia, this is one GAWGESS piece of work. Your flowers are BEAUTIFUL and I LOVE your papers, layout and that awesome ribbon/button treatment!! Way 2 go to honor Queen Grace this week!! TFS!
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Fri, May 28, 2010 @ 12:39 PM
Oh my goodness, this is lovely! The split background looks amazing, right along with your perfect stitching and corner accents! The flowers are amazing, and I just love the ribbon treatment with the square button! Fabulous!
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