Basket of Daisies

by Julie Warner - The Write Stuff

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Happy Friday!

This is the post you should have seen last week, but Blogger apparently had other plans for everyone. Oh well! I hope you've had a terrific week! We've been having some work done on our house so there's been lots of banging and sawing and hammering going on every day. I have kind of gotten used to it but my parrots are nervous wrecks. Every little noise and they think they're under attack. I can't imagine anyone coming after a parrot w/ a hammer and nails. It would be a lot like trying to nail jello to the wall, lol. But I'm sure in their little parrot heads they're imagining all kinds of terrible fates.
My first inclination, was color all the flowers and basket. But I had the gold embossing powder sitting out and thought, hmmm. The flowers reminded me of a flower bed full of daisies we had in the house I grew up in. Loved them! So after stamping the image twice and gold embossing, I used a little bleach on the second batch of daisies, cut some out and attached them on the base image. They just give a little dimension and subtle difference in color. The gold paper behind them was cut w/ a lg blossom die. On the background, I gold embossed the dots on top and the medium daisy bloom on the bottom. I used a lt sand marker to add just a hint of color. Finished card measures 4.25 x 5.5. Gold embossing just adds elegance to any image, don't you think?

Thanks so much for stopping by!

Supplies:
stamps: Daisy Basket, Med Daisy Bloom, Polka Dot Background, Just Because
paper: ivory, brushed gold
ink: Encore Ultimate Metallic gold pigment
accessories: detail gold embossing powder, lt sand marker, Krylon gold leaf pen, bleach & acrylic paintbrush, Spellbinders blossom, ribbon tag and circle dies, Quickutz scallop border die

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