Wednesday Weekly Card Giveaway

Hello crafters!  Here is the card for today's Wednesday weekly card giveaway.  In case your monitor shows otherwise, it is milk coloured with gold accents.  If you want to be included in the drawing to win it, just leave me a comment today.  The winner will be announced on Saturday's post.  I started by stamping the Vintage Alphabet Soup background stamp using a clear Perfect Medium pad on milk card.  I had to do two stampings of it to cover the background size I wanted, but then just dusted it with gold mica powder for a soft shimmery look.  I used the Vintage Bracket and Label die to cut an aperture out of the centre of it.  On the lower portion of the background, I added a strip of milk card that I scored lines into.  Using one of the edgeability inserts, I cut a thin border out of milk card.  I used a piece of soft gold card behind it and embossed it together.  On a separate piece of milk card, I used the Wild Holly embossing folder to give texture to it.  I mounted this piece behind the aperture opening in my background.  I went back to the original piece of the background that I removed from the aperture and cut one of the tags from it so the pattern carried over.  I mounted it in the opening as a backdrop to my sentiment.  I stamped and embossed the sentiment in gold and cut it out with a simple oval die shape.  I used some Antique Linen ink on it while it was still in the die to highlight it.  I mounted it in the centre of the tag to complete my focal element.  I tied a double bow out of silky crush ribbon and added a flower made from the Spiral Blossom four and cream felt.  Two cream stick pins were added as accents.  The entire piece was matted with soft gold card before adding my final double milk mats with  pierced inner layer and completing my card.  The finished dimensions are 7 1/2" x 8 1/4" in size.  I hope you like it, let me know.

Yes there are still a few more cards that have been shown and not given away.  That is, I left them with a coworker to post out, then forgot which ones and accidentally posted them already (yes the memory is going fast these days! LOL)  If you want to see the second card that will be in this week's drawing, just scroll to the bottom of this post!   All for now, Sue x