Fire Fest 2010 was fun. We saw the art work that three of my mom's kids won ribbons for and got to meet the firefighters from the calender (ok, so that was more for me then them, lol). DS #1 was slow to warm up to everything but by the end you would have thought he was into everything as he kept saying how he was going to be a firefighter when he got older. We did see some fire demostrations (at least me and my youngest as the oldest was freaked) and even got some pictures of them with some firetrucks. We'll have to go back next year for sure.
I've got another card for ya'll today, and this one came together rather quickly too. I punched 4 or 5 scallop circles out of a dictionary page to make the flower, covered them in Glimmer Mist, and crumpled them up. Once they were dry I just layered them adding a bit of glue in-between each one. I placed a pretty golden bling to the center and I was done. I paired it up with a wonderful quote from Verve's Blue Skies set sponged the edges with Scattered Straw and Dried Marigold distress ink. I love the look of the distress flower and it works so well with the distress brown frame layer as well as the crumpled up vellum (which has a nice shimmer thanks to my Iridescent Gold GM). I also went with a long skinny card as it isn't my norm and I wanted something a little different.
Challenges used:
Clean & Simple - sketch
SCS Hope You Can Cling To - add a flower
Stamp Something - use a punch
If the Shoe Fits - distress
CCEE - add a flower you made
Cute Card Thrusday - make your own embelli
7 comments:
Hi Cassie, this is a gorgeous card. Love the shape of it, a beautiful sentiment and the flower you made is amazing. Thank you so much for sharing the instructions on how to make it, sounds easy. I will have to give it a try.
Also many thanks for joining us this week at stamp something, hope you'll play again next week!
oooh another gorgeous card. Who knew a flower that beautiful could be so simple to make!
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very pretty, your flower is gorgeous!!! Thanks for joining us at If the Shoe fits...SCRAP IT!!!
Cassie, I love the idea of using print pages to make the flower. I have to remember to try that. Gorgeous card!
OOooooooo!! LOVE your scrunched flower with that fabulous sentiment!! Love that you made the card tall too!! Thanks for joining our CCEE challenge this week!!
That's a beautiful flower. I love how it's shimmery.
Love the little distressed handmade flower !
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