Love The Simple Things

 Hello all!  A card from yesterday's Toolshed show for you today.  It was lovely to get to do a double act with Julia for the very first time!  She was so kind to share her show with me so that I was able to launch my new folders!  I think that the overall response to them was fabulous!  I know you will love using them as much as I do!  Now on to today's card.  I used the Doily stamp from Justrite and stamped it all over my periwinkle background card using a Clear Perfect Medium Pad.  I heat embossed it with True White Detail embossing powder.  I cut a border from the California Collection and mounted it diagonally across the card for interest.  I tied a messy bow out of white seam binding and spritzed it with water, then crumpled it for a shabby chic sort of look.  I dried it with my heat tool and added a white crystal sparkler and matching stick pins to it and seated it on the upward end of my border.  For my focal element, I stamped the Rose Bouquet stamp, first on periwinkle card then on coconut white card, both times using a black archival ink pad.  I die cut both of them using two sizes of the Vintage Labels Three die from Justrite.  I mounted them up with foam in between.  I cut two of the Majestic Circles in white and off set them as a base for my focal element.  I mounted the entire piece in the upper portion of my card.  I paper pierced a white white using my piercing ruler, added a thin blue mat and a final white mat to complete my card.  The finished dimensions are 7" x 7 3/4" in size.

  I will be posting the winners of the Second Release Die Giveaway later this afternoon so don''t forget to check back and see if your name was drawn!  All for now, Sue x