Saturday, January 15, 2011

more birthday wishes

I have been loving the Big Shot lately.  The embossing folders make a quick and easy background or cardfront that doesn't need a whole lot more.

For this card, I wanted to use some of the paper daisies.  I bought them quite a while ago now, but haven't played with them much.  I would like to eventually try dying them with ink refills, but for this project, leaving them white meant that I didn't have to wait around for them to dry and I didn't have to pull out my heat tool either.


Stamps: On Your Birthday
Paper: Perfect Plum, Rose Red, Certainly
Celery, Daffodil Delight, Marina Mist, Very
Vanilla
Ink: Elegant Eggplant
Tools: Circle Punches, Big Shot, Polka Dot
Embossing Folder
Accessories: Paper Daisies, Hemp Twine,
Retired Buttons, Glue Dots

After I made a couple of these cards, I left them out on my desk while I moved on to another project.  The more that I looked at them though, the more I thought that they needed something else - a little more colour or something.  Here's what I came up with - nothing major, just a couple of different sized circles in bright colours to make the embellishments stand out a little more.  It wasn't the colour combination that I had started out with in my head, but I think that it works.

2 comments:

AntyTara said...

oh wow, I am glad you showed that, the difference is noticeable and took so little ....... great to have you blogging again too :):) and congrats on the new home :)

Margaret said...

So cute and so simple to create.