Hello everyone,

 

Today I have this card to share:



And well.... I can assure you that there were many times, during the creative process, that I thought: You should have left it alone!!!!! But.... we here at Swirlydoos.... we just can't stop adding right?

So that is exactly what I did, and I'm not too unhappy with it.


For the base of my card I folded an A4 piece of cardstock double and drew a circle, which at the top, is a little overlapping to create a double round card.


Then I drew another circle (same size as the base card) on PP and cut it out.

(Excuse me for the dirty background)
I distressed the edges and glued it onto my opened card base. I find that when you open up your card, you can align it better. Especially helpful with a stripe designed paper.


I cut a piece of PP at 4.1/2 x 3.1/4 for my first layer and rounded the corners.


Then, and excuse me for this tag being teared, I cut a tag at 2.1/4 x 3
(that is what you get if you want to use your scrap)


And I placed both pieces like in the picture.


Then I cut another tag from that beautiful rose PP at 5.1/4 x 2.3/8. I distressed and inked the edges.


I glued it to the center piece but did raise it a litlle, by using a piece of the box, the kit came in. I also teared, it looks like a letter M to me, from an old book page.


I glued it on top of the frist little tag.


Then I cut a little strip at 2.1/2 x 5/8. This will be a mat for my (from the barcode strip) cut out sentiment *friendship*


Both pieces got their edges distressed and inked


And I glued them to the rose tag like this.


Then I took out a little mesh and placed it over my center. (I made this picture a little darker, for you to see the mesh better)


I die cutted some flowers (I used the Spellbinder rose die)


Shaped the edges and turned it into a flower.


I placed my flower on top of the book-page tag and added some bling which came in the kit and 2 handmade leaves.


Then I added a little strip of burlap.


I added some structure paste. (And here's where I thought: I should have left it alone)


Because I wanted to add a few mists, but sadly I grapped the wrong bottle and urgh... It turned out a dark blue instead of a lighter teal. So I added some gold mist and some Papersoft and eventually after everything was dry, I added some inka gold.


To finish it off, I glued a resin



and some pearl strand.
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SO learn from my mistake and put the bottles of mists you want to use in front of you,

 to make sure that you will NOT grab the wrong color mist.

I hope you like it anyway, and have a lovely weekend.