Two Colourways

Hi my crafty friends! Sounds like sage advice to me, the card sentiment.  This is the card that Dean and I thought had a Moulin Rouge/Carnival/Can Can dancer feel to it!  It sort of does, I think, but that is some of it's charm too. I managed to snap off a few quick pics before they whisked it away to be sent out after my demo.  You'll have to tell me which colour way  you prefer!   I started with a piece of striped decorative card.  I used the swirl stamp from the Butterfly Dreams set (I really like that stamp!)  and stamped it all the way around the edge of the card with a clear perfect medium pad.  I heat embossed it with gold powder.  I covered the entire piece with a sticky self adhesive sheet, peeled off the backing paper (eventually!) and covered it with micro beads for a fun textural feel to it.  I stamped the large Labels 29 stamp from the Good Friends set, cut it out with the matching die and inked it with Tattered Rose distress ink.  I mounted it with foam in the centre of my beaded background.   Next I stamped my sentiment and cut it out with Vintage labels 2 and inked it with Tattered Rose.  I also cut the next size of the die as a mat and inked it lightly too.  I stacked them up to complete my focal element.  I used the Bitty Blossoms die set to create my floral elements.  I inked them with Tattered Rose as well for a coordinating look and rolled them to form the flowers.  I cut the leaves and inked through the die with clear perfect medium and gold embossed them.  I arranged them in the corner and tucked a piece of cream tulle in with them.  I pierced the milk coloured mat to finish it off.  Still love the sentiment!  Finished dimensions are 6 1/2" x 7 1/2" in size.