Hello Stampers~
One of the many products that Sharon, Jan Marie, and I discovered while at CHA a couple of weeks ago, is a fun embellishment from the UK called Candi. Candi is an innovative and exciting alternative to brads, except they have no prongs, are made of a beautiful shimmery paper, and cost a gaGILLION times less than brads. We like that feature best of all, now, don't we! ;-)
For my card today, I used the Candi along the bottom border, in conjunction with Spellbinders Classic Petal Edgeabilities Dies. I used Icing Sugar Candi, and colored them using my R14 Copic marker from Flourishes Sweet Pea Collection. As you can see, Candies keep their shimmer, even when colored. The pretty rose embellishment was also made using Candies; but you'll have to hop on over to the Flourishes Blog to see how I made that. I have a video over there today with several fun ideas for using the Candies. Here's a close-up of the rose:
As for the rest of the card, I used one of my all-time favorite Flourishes sets, Lenten Rose. My GOODNESS, I do love to color that image! It is just so YUMMY! The layers behind the image were cut out using a Spellbinders Classic Rectangles Die and a Spelbinders Labels Twenty-Three Die. The sentiment was cut out using one of Flourishes own Tailor-Made Classic Keyhole Dies.
The Copic Marker Collections used on this card are as follows:
The papers are Flourishes Classic White cardstock and Basic Grey's Picadilly patterned papers. I added a bit of White Braided Trim and a big, beautiful bow made from Champagne Silk Ribbon. The card size is 5-1/4" square.
That's all, friends!
Have yourselves a FABULOUS Monday!
Hugs,
~Cindy
