From the archives, around 2010: I've never been very happy with this one, but it has its redeeming features, and my mum seemed happy with it, and as she commissioned it, who am I to argue? It was for her next door neighbour's 60th, and apparently it was a perfect match for the party invitation, so 'twas obviously meant to be!
The brief was black & silver, so I ran the Cuttlebug Divine Swirls embossing folder through my Big Shot with a piece of black card, distressed the edges a bit, and roughly rubbed an Encore metallic silver inkpad over the surface to pick out the swirls and add to the distressed appearance. I used an Inkadinkado flourish stamp underneath the panel (which I raised on black foam), and I think it's that part that I don't like... the flourishes, I mean. It was done in a hurry, and it shows. Not much thought or design gone into it. Ah well.
I used an embossed silver punched heart in the middle of the black flower, a couple of pearl sprays and some pinched ribbon bows tucked in behind. A crackled-glass heart bead is suspended from the flower. The spiral clip and the silver foiled sentiment (Craftwork Cards) were from a lucky blog candy win.
The numbers are silver peel-offs.
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