Smile

I made this card for a friend. I had read an article about dogs that made me laugh. She has two golden retrievers, and I thought she would find the article amusing.  I couldn't just put it in an envelope...it needed a card.  And gave me the impetus to play with a new to me stamp and stencil combo.

The stamp and stencil are from Stampers Anonymous-Perfect Peony.  I love peonies they are just so lush and gorgeous.  I first stamped it in Soft Vanilla ink on white card, and then placed the matching stencil over it. I decided to color with distress inks, and used a combination of  tattered rose, and worn lipstick for the flower and peeled paint and mowed lawn for the leaves.  I decided that I wanted more definition to the flower so I stamped it again through the stencil with fired brick. I then needed to soften those lines just a bit, so I went over it with some more tattered rose. Then stem was stamped again with pine needles.

Over the weekend I had out my Silhouette Portrait, and I cut out loads of words for cards on white cardstock.  I thought smile would be appropriate to the contents of the card. The  Smile cut was stacked 3 deep and then colored by using versamark and rangers liquid platinum embossing powder.  I also used the  frames die cut from Simon Says stamp to put a very thin pink border around the flower panel.  Of course I had to add some wink of stella to the blossom.

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