Showing posts with label Engagement. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Engagement. Show all posts

Wednesday, March 26, 2014

Happiness and Rhinestones

Today's challenge on MFP's Simple Salutations was to make an elegant card.  Hmm, I am many things but elegant is not what usually springs to mind.  However, I had just bought some gorgeous rhinestone buckles since I need to make some wedding cards for work.  Rhinestones are always elegant in my mind.

Not trusting myself, I looked on Splitcoaststampers and decided to go with Sketch 473.  I then chose MFP's Huge blooms because it would be hard to make an inelegant card with it.  (Yes, I have managed it!)  I created a background by stamping the blooms with Versamark and then heat embossing with sparkling, clear embossing powder.  Unfortunately, I made the tragic mistake of trapping white, I mean pink, space in the middle and that threw the whole thing off balance.  So I stamped the same bloom, embossed in white and fussy cut it out.  To make it pop, I added some leaves that I had curled around a pencil for depth and popped the flower up on some recycled rubber.  The sentiment is from this month's MFP's Bundle of Joy set.  I love the sentiment, thinking it would work for birthdays, graduations or engagements.