SC181 Challenge Card Lavendar Frienship

I made this card for a friend, and for my SC181 Challenge on SCS...I used my Cuttlebug to emboss the Black and Lavendar Lace pieces with D'vine Swirl and Swiss Dots...then I used my paper piercer to make the holes I used to sew the waxy flax through. I really like how it turned out..I thought I had enough DP, but when I went looking for something to put in the background I couldnt find anything to go with it. I finally used my Petals Jumbo Wheel and Lavendar Lace Ink to roll the flowered background. I then added a little color using my Watercolor Wonder Crayons in Nuetral to paint the dots and dashed circles in the two gray colors. I matted the Lavendar and Black with White card stock and then used my silent setter to punch the holes for placing the 3 MM lavendar Rivets. When I finished with the rivets I matted with Black. The double matting helped make the Main image and Embossed pieces stand out, and I like the black behind the riveting instead of the white. The friendship sentiment from "Think Happy Thoughts" was stamped in SU Basic Gray ink, and the flower from the set in Lavendar lace. I punched the iimages out with a 1-1/4 and 3/4 circle punch and then matted with black, cut with the 1 3/8 circle punch, and mounted on dimensionals...as an after thought I think the Small flower maybe could use a lavendar matting also, other than that I like how it looks and I hope my friend does also.

Until later ...Happy Stamping!