Follow Your Bliss…

My friend Julia, who hosts the WT challenge on SCS, decided that this week we would use metal! I remembered these copper metal tags that I bought from SU! years ago as a “must have” item, then ended up using like *three* of them, LOL!! I thought they would be cool for the challenge!

I wanted to use some of my new Bazzill Bling cardstock for this card. I got it at my LSS, and boy do I ever love it. It has the signature Bazzill texture, plus a beautiful shimmer built right in! And we all know how I feel about things that shimmer….. This color is a pretty close match to garden green.

I reached for one of my very favorite sets, Balmy Breezes. I stamped the tree on watercolor paper using memories black ink. Then, I watercolored it using a combination of reinkers and markers (see colors below). I heat set it to dry, then punched 3 holes on the left side so that I could add these copper grommet things with eyelets. I held the grommets in place, inserted the green eyelets, then set them with the cropodile. I like to use hemp with this stamp set, so I looped some through the eyelets, pulled the ends through, and tied a knot. Then trimmed the ends for a cool little accent. I tore the right side off for some texture, and mounted it on dimensionals to a piece of chocolate chip cardstock that I had pierced down the left side. Then, I tore the chocolate chip as well.

Hmmmm, now how was I going to embellish this some more? I dug through my stash of ribbon and found this cool gauze/mesh May Arts ribbon that I got from StarLitStudio months ago. (another “must have” item )That seemed to work great with this image, so I trimmed a length of it, and machine stitched it to the card using a caramel colored thread. I mounted the focal image to the cardfront at an angle, added Stickles to the water, and decided on my sentiment.

I have used Circle of Friendship with this set before, so I stamped the sentiment on cool caribbean cardstock, punched it using the 1″ punch, then mounted it on a 1 1/4″ punched circle of garden green. I attached that to the cooper metal tag using redliner tape, and set a chocolate chip eyelet at the top. I used the same hemp treatment as the grommets, and attached to the card using a pop-up glue dot.

I kinda wanted this card to be all about the metal, so I hope I succeeded?

Thanks for coming to visit! I hope you have a great day today!! NEW Grey’s Anatomy is on tonight!! WOO HOO!! *happy dance*