Flower Power

Flower Power: Water Lily

This is my card for Damselfly's Flower Power LTC swap.  Can you believe I made a set of cards and took almost no pictures?!  I guess I got busy with all the layers and simply forgot.  My card is called, "Water Lily." 

I joined the swap and thought about making a rose or a daisy.  But then a request was made for stamps in memory of p green frog.  I decided to carve the water lily and send the stamp off. 

I have a lot of flower cards on my LTC Pinterest board and HERE is the one that was the inspiration for this card.  A few years ago I participated in a swap called "Lumpy Card Lovers Unite."  I really enjoyed making that card and I have been thinking about hosting a swap with the same theme.  But this card helped fill my need to make something layered and lumpy. 

For this card, I cut my paper into tag shape, stamped a text stamp with brown ink, smeared some texture paste on with a knife, rubbed some Mustard Seed Distress Ink on the dried texture paste with an ink applicator.  Then, I put down a stencil and rubbed Mowed Lawn Distress Ink down the left side and Spun Sugar on the right but you can't really see it.  I ordered a glitter brush pen from Scrapbook.com and brushed it over the yellow texture paste.  After that, I attached my vellum and misc text scrapbook papers with glue dots.  I LOVED the use of thread in my inspiration card.  I wound some pink thread up and attached it and my stamp image with a foam square.  I also went around the edge of the card with a dark brown ink.  I am thrilled with how my cards turned out. 

These are the stamps that I am donating to the p green frog box. On her profile page on Atlas Quest, her quote is "Life is Good."  I added this message to one of the cards and sent it off to TeachJR who was good friends with p green frog.  p green frog passed away late last year and they are making a event box in her memory.