Thank You

Hi crafty friends!  This one is a favourite of mine as I love unusual backing papers.  I find myself looking at papers now thinking "how will that look covered in micro beads!"  LOL  This paper is from Graphic 45 and has a lovely brown, creamy yellow and black colour combo to it.  I covered it with a sticky adhesive sheet and micro beaded it.  I cut the bottom edge on the diagonal.  I used a piece of coordinating pale yellow card for the bottom of my background.  Using a score board, I added some lines to the bottom and a light inking of black Soot to add interest.  I used a leftover piece of the background paper and tore small circles of different sizes, crumpled them and glued them together to form the floral  cascade between the two sections of the background.  I added small black pearls to the centres of each of the flowers.  Next I stamped the lace medallion on black card using a clear perfect medium pad.  I heat embossed it with clear powder and cut it out with the matching nested medallion die.  I stamped the smaller medallion from the Always and Forever set on the pale yellow card.  I cut two sizes of the nested medallion to create a frame from it.  I stamped my sentiment on the yellow card and mounted the frame over it with foam pieces.   I added it atop my lace medallion as my focal element.  To finish the card, I added a couple of soft black feathers to my focal element and a black rhinestone swirl section to my bottom corner.  I pierced the inner layer of my double black mat.  It's very Moulin Rouge in it's feel, but a really fun piece!  Finished dimensions are 6" x 7 1/2" in size.  All for now, Sue x