With Kindness Rose

Good Sunday Morning!  It's showtime today at noon for me on Create and Craft and here is a look at another one of the stamp sets from the show.  It is called Rose Vintage Labels Seven by Justrite Stamps.  I picked some papers from the Teresa Collins paper pack that is exclusive to Creative Expressions to use as my background for the card.  The pretty random word paper made a great matching border strip to the background paper so I just matted it with a thin mat of black card.  In milk coloured card, I cut Becca Feeken's Filigree Delight as a smaller background for my focal element.    I stamped the Rose on milk card twice using a black Archival ink pad.  The first one I cut out with the matching Labels seven die and inked through the die with Antique Linen Distress ink.  The second one, I covered just the centre rose section with a piece of sticky self adhesive sheet and then cut it out by hand.  If you hold it to the light it is very easy to see through to do this.  I peeled the backing paper off and covered it with Diamond Sprinkles.  Using an Antique Linen Distress marker I was able to add shading to the rose on top of the Diamond Sprinkles so it matched the rest of the design underneath.  I mounted it on foam for dimension.  I cut a Gold Labels Four in Black to mount the entire rose piece on top and then in the centre of the Filigree Delight.  I added a messy bow tied from chalk seam binding and topped it with a little cream flower from my stash.  I stamped a sentiment and cut it out with one of the tags from the show and tucked it under the bow.   I finished the embellishing with two pretty stick pins that I made and some black rhinestone swirls.  The matting and layering was added last, first a pierced inner layer of milk, then a thin black and a final milk coloured layer to complete the card.  Finished dimensions are 7 3/4" x 7 3/4" in size.

We have a large bunch this week for the Comment Game winners since we had several extra qualifying posts.  The winners this week are:

Evelyn Sinclair!!!
Clai01!!!
Auscrafts!!!

From the extra qualifying post of Feb. 16th, the winners are:

Val Jones!!!
Janice Robinson!!!
Marianna Hammer!!!

From the extra qualifying post of Feb. 19th, the winners are:

Sandie chick!!!
Sioux P!!!
Vanessa Lee!!!

From the extra qualifying post of Feb. 21st, the winners are:

Crafty Suetoo!!!
Maria Illsley!!!
Brooke b!!!

Congratulations all!  You must email me at americansue1@gmail.com to confirm your address and claim your prizes!  Don't forget to check back tomorrow to see if you have won the new edition of the Creative Expressions Project Book (just hot off the presses!)  Hope to see you at noon until 2pm today on C & C as well!  You can watch online at www.createandcraft.tv if you don't live in the UK, but the shows are live so you will have to work out the time difference to see them as they air.  They can also be watched in taped form one hour after the show has aired live by clicking on the arrow next to the show in the schedule.   All for now, Sue x