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Hot Mess=Success Feb 2024

                                                  

Hi all I'm playing catch up here. My hot mess card isn't one I'm fond of. I started with one thing and the card morphed into something entirely different. Ugghhhh.


I started with embossing a Altenew flower on vellum and colored it with paints. When I got it finished I then die cut it with the matching die. Ok I guess that will do. Maybe I should put it on a darker background and the colors would show up a bit better. So I took some watercolor paper and swiped distress ink over the background and wet it with water and crumpled it up to give the background a little more texture. It didn't quite turn out how I had imagined. I then mounted the vellum flower on black paper and fussy cut around the vellum to get even more color to pop. It helped somewhat ( I should have given up here and started over) I then mounted the flower on the  background paper. I also added some little silver rhinestone randomly on the card. Like I said I should have just thrown it away but the stubbornness took over and I am now posting a card I'm not fond of because I was sure it could be salvaged. Here is my card:


Thank you for stopping by. I really do appreciate it. Please stop by Barb and Jeanette's blogs they have some wonderful cards they have created.

Until next time,
Hugs,
Carol

Comments

Carol, you are too hard on yourself. Your card looks great and you got so creative (and messy) making it. I was especially impressed with the wadded up way you did the background. I would never think of that.
Barb said…
You are so creative--such a fun card!