Wednesday, May 23, 2012

Flowers...

Happy "Hump" Day to you! My house has been in a bit of discord this week. Kyle is going through finals, and needless to say our house has been a bit stressed out over it. He only has a few more days and then he is off for the summer, and becomes an official sophomore!

I have a JustRite card to share with you.  It uses two of the new sets, Heart Scroll Background stamp and Botanical Medallions and Banners.   For the background, I heat embossed it using Versamark and white embossing powder.  I brayered it with two shades of purple and wiped off the excess with a tissue.  I distressed the edges a bit with brown ink.  I added this beautiful rhinestone trim from Sharon's Stamp Simply store. I took a bit of vellum and created a ruffle to tuck under the trim. 
The flowers were also stamped in Versamark and embossed in white.  I pulled out my very dusty Twinkling H2O's and decided to play around a bit with them.  The sparkly leaves were done with the left over vellum and green H2O's.  I hand cut them and added them behind the popped up flower.  The sentiment is also from the Botanical Medallions set.  It was stamped in avocado on a little tag I had in my stash.  I attached it behind my popped up flower.  
Summer is right around the corner.....just two more weeks of school!  I am looking forward to those more relaxed days with no homework, no finals, no clocks to punch! I am blessed to work in a job that allows me the summers off!
Have a wonderful day!  

12 comments:

Life and Knits said...

Hi Michele,
Beautiful card as always! Happy "almost start of the summer" to ya!

Esther Asbury said...

Beautiful card! Love the soft lilac color and those dainty vellum flowers!

Larissa Heskett said...

BEAUTIFUL CARD Michele!! I LOVE all of the layers as usual!! Also the fun trims!! THANKS for sharing and have a FABULOUS WEEK!! =)

Jingle said...

This is beautiful!

Marty said...

Absolutely Gorgeous card!!! Ilove the colors and trims

Ruth G said...

I love your lavender background! So very pretty! Enjoy your time with the kids! It's so good to appreciate the gifts of time that we have!

Riet said...

What a beautiful card Michele.

Hugs Riet.xx

Karon said...

Oh My! Michele this card is absolutely beautiful. TFS

Rea' said...

Pretty card love those colors, that combination is great, love the texture in the leaves and those flowers !

Sharon (notimetostamp) said...

So pretty -- I love it!

Cricut Couple said...

Oh how I remember finals. And... I sure don't miss them. Hee! Hee! Your card is just so pretty! I love the colors. The flower work is really beautiful too!

EllenaElizabeth said...

Pretty card and I love the touch of purple, it's different but very nice.