Today was a "try it and see" day

Today I had the house all to myself. I got a little cleaning done (okay, a LOT) and got some cards made too! I decided that since I had the whole table to spread out on and no one was here to interrupt my "creative process" I would try out a bunch of techniques and styles I've never used before. I'm quite sure that someone, somewhere has done all this before so forgive me for acting like it's all new (it is to me).

I found beautiful piece of 2-sided paper in my bedroom-why there? I have no idea. Anyhoo, I dug around in my ribbon jar and found this one. From there the card almost just fell together in front of me. I cut the front of the card about an inch shorter than the back and scalloped the edge so that the piece of metallic gold CS could be seen. Mated the printed leaf on gold metallic CS and also the sentiment (which by the way is NOT stamped w/ ink b/c I only own black and green ink pads so far; it's stamped using acrylic paint that my DH keeps on hand.) The purple background is stamped with a SU mini-backgrounder using GEMS acrylic paint.



The second card was pretty much an accident. I was sifting through the scraps on my table looking for white CS for an image to go w/ another card and the purple CS had slipped between this scrap. My brain grabbed the idea and ran ahead of me. The purple CS is cut to a slightly larger diameter than the cut-out is and glued inside the card. Then I stamped the cute little flower and colored it in w/ colored pencils. The "swirls" are just for fun and the ribbon happened to match. The 6 brads started out pink and I painted them with acrylic paints (again...materials I don't have on hand yet=every-color-of-the-rainbow-brads) so that they would match. I like this card b/c there's not really any reason behind it...just a lot of creativity and imagination to get where I wanted to be.

Thanks for looking! I got a bunch more done today but I'm gonna save them for days that I don't have time to create and still want to blog. Have a great night!!!