Mixed Bouquet & Cheesecloth

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I am definately a glutton for punishment, and this time I went full steam ahead straight at it. I signed up for one more card in the "Goin' Out in Style Swap"(There were still 4 spots open when I last checked). Making a total of five cards I have made for this swap. Then to make it even better I made this card. Cutting out a total of 9 flowers for each of the 7 cards.

This card took a little bit of time to make, but to me the beauty of it makes the effort worth while. In real Life you can see all the glitter, shine and dimension of the card.


To start I made the base of the card using Perfect Plum, trimming the corners with a small corner rounder. Next I cut the Certainly Celery & Elegant Eggplant layers and trimmed their corners with the ticket corner punch.

I cut the white layers at 5.5x4.25 then stamped it with SU Certainly Celery Ink using the SU Cheesecloth Background.(retiringthe end of June) After stamping it I trimmed it to its finished size 4.5x3.25, Then trimmed the corners with the ticket corner punch.
After trimming it I stamped "happiness" in Elegant Eggplant ink, and mounted it to the Elegant Eggplant cardstock. I tied the Celery grosgrain ribbon, I got at my Michael's, around this and secured it with one small "Zot" glue dot on back of the knot. I then mounted it to the Certainlt Celery card stock.

I next stamped the Large rose, daisies , circle blooms and the leaves with "Timber Brown"Stazon ink. I usually paint with reinkers, but I hate that this tends to waste a lot of ink.
I have a hard time pressing the lid and getting enough ink to paint a project,so I have developed a method of using my ink pads that I prefer. I press the ink pad onto a large piece of foil. Then I use my aqua painter and wet it up then dab it onto the inked foil. I start with the lightest color and re-ink the foil if I need to. Today I started with barely banana and used it to paint the center of the daisies, and then Certainly Celery to paint the leaves. next, I used Pale Plum to paint the daisy petals. After painting all the daisies, I used Aleens Paper glaze to dot over the daisy centers to make them shiny. I set this aside to dry while I painted the other flowers. Perfect plum was used on the circle flowers and Ellegant Eggplant on the large roses, I would probably reverse this the next time I make these cards.

I used an old paper piercer to get the top off of my Stickles so I could paint with them. I used "diamond"on the petal outlines of the large rose images, just to add some shine. A paint brush seemed to work better then the tip for me.

**Help** I have had a lot of difficulty using Stickles, everyone uses them and loves them, but the tip is constantly clogging for me, I find it very frustrating. Please, If anyone has any hint on how to use Stickles or make them work better leave a comment and let me know.


After everything was dry I cut all the flowers out. The leaves and circle flowers were mounted direct to the background of the card using mounting tape. Next, I mounted the large Rose using a large Therm O Web foam square(1/8" thick). The daisies were mounted next using a small (1/16"thick) EK 3-D Dots. Last,but not least, I added a little bit of bling using a purple HeroArts self stick Gemstone to dot the "i" in Happiness.
This card it was fun to make, and it makes me "Happy" to share it with you!


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I think I should hit post 500 by then!

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