Quick And Speedy Recovery

Good Sunday morning!  Many of you know that I am away at the Ally Pally show this weekend so I have had to schedule this post much earlier in the week.  The Sunday comment game winners will be a bit delayed this week because of it.  I will do the drawings when I return on Monday and post it at the bottom of Tuesday mornings post for you so don't forget to check!  Today's card is one from the Let Your Soul Sing set by Justrite.  I used the Flake and Glitter glue and covered my branch stamp with it and stamped it on to milk coloured card a couple of times. I stamped a few butterflies from the set and a bird too.  I cleaned my stamp well by running it under the tap.  You don't want this glue to dry on your stamps.  Next I covered my stamped images with Summer Meadow Gilding Flakes and used a small piece of Rubit Scrubit pad to refine them.  You just need to rub lightly in a circular fashion and the flakes will adhere and the pad will remove the excess.  I then covered it with a piece of sticky self adhesive sheet and added micro beads over it.  I love how the gilding flakes still show through so nicely but you get the added bonus of the texture of the clear micro beads.   I added my bird and butterflies with small glue dots for dimension.  I matted the entire piece on some soft gold card and then proceeded to make an embossed background for it.  I embossed a piece of milk card with my Sea Garden embossing folder.  I matted it on soft gold card as well.  I stamped my sentiment (from Get Well Labels 20 set) and embossed it with gold powder.  I cut it out with Vintage Labels four dies and made a soft gold mat with the larger oval from the set.  I mounted this in the corner of my beaded piece.  I added a bow tied from champagne coloured silky crush ribbon and a natural jute bow beneath it.  I finished the bow with the flatback antique gold buttons that will be in stock very soon (they sent me samples and I have been using them everywhere as they are gorgeous!)  I added three large flatback pearls to the background as embellishments.  Finally, a double milk mat finished the card and I added Pearl PVA glue dots around the edge.  Finished dimensions are 8" x 9" in size.  All for now, Sue x