Enjoy Your Day

 Morning my friends!  I have a confession to make.  Sometimes I have a small embellishment that I want to use and I design the entire card around it.  This time it was the ribbon.  I had been looking at this blue satin edged ribbon sitting on my craft table for a few days and was really wanting to use it!  So this card was the result.  It matched very nicely with our new Periwinkle blue card (which I also love) so that was it, decision made!  The whole time I was planning this card, I was going to make it mostly white with a bit of blue and black.  I changed my mind and decided to step outside my comfort zone a bit and omit the white.  I have to admit, I was happy with  the way it came out, but I really had to struggle to capture the colour in the pics.  These are the second set of photos that were taken, as the card just looked purplish in the first set.  I think I would have had a hard time convincing you that it was, indeed, periwinkle blue!
 I used the Lace Vintage stamps by Justrite and stamped the background with a clear perfect medium pad to get just a watermark effect.  Once stamped, I used the Interlocking Circles folder to add texture over the stamping to the background.  I matted it with a thin black mat.  Next I stamped the pieces for my centre buckle effect.  Again, I used the same stamp, but this time I embossed it with black powder.  I cut out three of these using the Vintage Labels Three by Justrite, using two dies from the set to cut frames into these.  I arranged the three frames and wove the blue satin edged ribbon through them creating my buckle.  I carefully added mounting foam to the back and attached them down the centre of the card.  I stamped my sentiment and decorative surround using a black Archival ink on to the blue card and cut it out with the Vintage Labels four die.  I attached it in the centre with mounting foam and added some flatback black pearls as accents.  I tied a double bow and added it at the top of the card using glue dots.  I added a fancy black button from my craft stash to the centre of the bow as an embellishment.  Finally finishing my card with a double blue pierced mat and some black pearls in the corners.  Finished dimensions are 7" x 8 1/2" in size.  All for now, Sue x