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Hey there Peeps,
I'm back today with another card using one of the doily embellies I made inspired by the cool tutorial series that Christine Middlecamp is doing on her blog right now using these adorable little Martha Stewart die-cut lace tags. They look like little doilies and I was so inspired by Christine's beautiful little works of art that my friend Pam and I decided to whip a few of them up ourselves, while I was at her house visiting last week. (Thanks so much, Christine, for the beautiful inspiration!)
So here we are today, with another of my little doily embellies put to work on a card. Happy sigh......seriously, if your mojo decides to take a hike, I highly recommend sitting down to make a few embellies like this. You don't really have to think in terms of a "layout" - be it cards or scrapbook pages. You just create the little pretties and before you know it, you'll have all kinds of different ideas for another embellie and another and another. And THEN, when your mojo has returned, you've got a beautiful stack of embellishments just waiting to be used on your project. And not only that, these little gems are likely to make it a lot easier to put a card or scrap layout together, because the embellie you choose to work with will sort of dictate the color combo for your project. Nice!
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My embellie today consists of a layer of hawaiian shores card stock behind the doily, die cut in a circle with a nestabilities die. I inked up the edges of the doily with vintage touch tea dye ink. For the flower, I used the Beautiful Blooms II #1 dies (the small and medium dies) to cut a flower from pure poppy card stock and another from raspberry fizz felt. I stitched them together with rustic cream button twine and a raspberry fizz button on top. (Don't you love that button?!) The ribbon is a little strip of spring moss classic grosgrain ribbon, folded in two and adhered to the back of the flower with scor-tape. I added a few little red rhinestones to finish the embellie off.I stamped the dotty background using the background stamp from the Round & Round stamp set (Papertrey's free anniversary set from this past year)....I stamped it in versamark ink on kraft card stock. I used the medium scallop border die on hawaiian shores card stock for the trim/sentiment strip along the bottom of the card. The sentiment is one from Big & Bold Wishes.
All righty then....guess I'd better get a bit more work done. I hope you're doing well and your week has gotten off to a great start!
Toodle-loo,
{Sincere, Heartfelt Thanks supplies}
Paper: kraft, hawaiian shores, pure poppy
Stamps: Big & Bold Wishes, Round & Round
Ink: versamark, dark chocolate, vintage touch tea dye
Other: Beautiful Blooms II #1 dies, medium scallop border die, spring moss classic grosgrain ribbon, raspberry fizz felt, rustic cream button twine, raspberry fizz button, red rhinestones, Martha Stewart die-cut lace tag, circle nestabilities die, sewing machine/thread
