Tuesday 30 November 2010

Vintage Rosette Flower

Hello again everyone, I hope you're managing to keep warm in the big chill.
I've got a card to share with you which is my finally finished entry for this week's Play Date Cafe challenge and I apologise in advance for a rather bad photo, the light was against me and I hope to get a better one tomorrow.

I've used papers here from the Polka Doodles All Around & Everywhere CD, combined with some vintage music score from my stash which has been altered with Vintage Photo Distress ink.
I made a crepe paper rosette by stitching along the length of a piece and gathering up the stitches to form the rosette. I then trimmed the outer edge with pinking shears. I rubbed on embossing ink and embossed with sparkly silver powder.
I made a centre for the flower with a scalloped inked music score circle and a grunge board harlequin patterned circle which I embossed with silver powder. I made 2 holes in the centre to turn it into a button and added a tie of embroidery thread altered with the Distress ink.
I made up the card as you see with various mats and a border made on the inked music score with the Martha Stewart Arch Lattice border punch. I finished off with a sentiment from the Butterfly Kisses Clear 2 Collage clear stamp set, stamped on decorated paper with Memento Rich Cocoa ink and coloured with Promarkers.

8 comments:

Tabitha said...

Lovely card. I really like the crepepaper rosette. I thought it was ribbon. Very nice.

Netty said...

Lovely card Fliss, terrific centrepiece.
Annette x

Andrea Ewen said...

Beautiful medallion! Wonderful use of our colors this week. Thanks for playing along with us at the Play Date Cafe!

Savannah O'Gwynn said...

OHHH! That rosette is fabby--and all that glitter! LOVE IT! Thanks so much for playing along and joining in the fun over at the PDCC!!

Anonymous said...

Very elegant card Fliss, beautiful work and gorgeous colour. Oh speaking of colour ... pop over and see Chris's page (she is one of my dt ) You know i told you about the fairies i made for the new year ? well Chris used one so you can get a sneak peek lol
http://myartyattempts.blogspot.com/
hugs June xxxxx

Sarah Anderson said...

Love the fifties look of this card with the paper rosette and the glitter. Thanks so much for playing along in the play date cafe this week :)

Claire Phillips said...

I love this Fliss - really clever and such beautiful soft colour! Cheers Claire x

Ruby said...

This is lovely Fliss. I love your flower, so pretty. You've really made our colours work so well. Sorry, I'm a bit late in getting around to comment on everyone's blogs, but thanks for playing along with us last week at the PDCC!