Hello dear friends!
It has been a long time since I have had an opportunity to post on my blog, and it's high time that I've done anything creative! I have forgotten how much I enjoy paper crafting, and today has been a day during which I made a wonderful creative mess all over the house! I have left scraps, glitter, embossing powder, and ink in three different rooms of our home in order to create just one card that I will be sharing with you today.
Today's project is inspired by the Shabby Chic Holiday challenge over at the Shabby Tea Room. When I saw the inspiration photo, it really got my creative juices flowing. This week's Mojo Monday sketch also made it simple for me to put what I had in mind together to create the following card. I actually took the sketch and turned it upside down...
I embossed the aqua panel using a folder from Couture Creations and then layered a die cut arch from the layered elegant swirl set by Heartfelt Creations and cut from silver glitter paper on top of it. The floral patterned paper is mounted on more glitter paper and layered with cream and aqua lace.
The flower was made using the Spellbinders Rose Creations dies and then painted with pink glimmer mist and a layer of diamond stickles. It rests on top of a die cut element from the Spellbinders vintage lace motifs set and is embellished with silver leaves.
The sentiment is bordered with a glittered name plate from Making Memories, and the card is completed with a Prima crystal swirl.
My dear husband blessed me with an early Christmas present, and I was able to choose my gift this year. I do believe that he is weary of trying to figure out what I would like to receive, and I didn't make it any easier because I delayed in giving him any form of wish list (I really didn't know what to ask for since I already had everything that I needed and wanted already!). Well, the dies and embossing folder used in this project were part of his gift to me, and I am so grateful that I was able to put them to good use today!
Here are the two images that inspired this project. I hope that you are inspired to be creative this week! If so, please leave a comment or link to your project below, and it would be my pleasure to see what you've created as well!
