Floral Stripes

I was able to play in another Hero Arts Scramble at their flickr gourp.  Our hostess was Theresa and her  theme was floral with stripes/plaids/checks.

I knew exactly what I wanted to do, and my card in reality is fairly close to my vision in my head...that rarely happens!

I used the Hero Arts Brushstrokes set to create some "lines" on my card background. Then  I Stamped Hero Arts Night and Day Flowers on top of the dried inks.  Next I used Impression Obsessions thin lines background stamp to add some tone on tone lines to my card base.   Then disaster struck! I had about 20 minutes left of the 90 allotted.

I only wanted to use part of the flower panel, so I trimmed it.  I have to say I didn't take just a bit off and then more and more...no I whacked a whole bunch off the right side and  less off the left.  I wanted the brush strokes to be edge to edge. I added a bit of glitter paper on the left side and mounted my flower panel...ugh...too much card base was visible on the right and I hadn't put a sentiment down yet!

So I grabbed my cut scraps, and trimmed them. I cut thin pieces of black card to look as if there was another layer.  Then I just added the re-trimmed inked pieces to the card front with a bit of black edging.  My foam dots were very cooperative and allowed my Hello to stamp cleanly even though it was not a flat surface.  Lastly a few blush colored gems and YEA the card was saved! 

Inks - Onyx Black Versafine, Hero Arts -Pale Tomato, Field Greens, Green Hills, Cornflower, Soft Apricot, and Fresh Peach.