A pretty Challenge card

Good Wednesday Morning Ladies,

Here we are at the middle of the week already, Happy 'Hump' day!  What are you all up to today? 

Not much planned here other than crafting, I am enjoying going through my 'New products' basket, although I have struggled to move away from those beautiful papers that I used on yesterdays card. 

I love this card that I made yesterday afternoon, using the stamp set called ''Ranunculus Romance' 

I like this set as you get some lovely stamps for creating your background papers as well as that lovely focal stamp which has a matching die to cut it out.

I decided to go a little bit 'grungy', I wanted to work on a Kraft Base card, so I chose Petal Pink (that is more of a soft peach) as I thought that it worked to well with the Kraft card.  I embossed a piece of the petal pink card with a script embossing folder and the roughed the edges up to give that shabby effect.  

After creating my background paper with the stamps in the set and the flower from Flowing Flowers, I edged it with a little Crumb Cake ink mixed with Petal pink ink.  I took the stamped piece and tore it all the way down to add to the shabby feel of the card, I inked the torn part. 

I layered the petal pink embossed piece then added the torn background with a piece of the delicate lace tucked just under the edge. I decided to create a tag for the main focus of the card, I used another piece of the background I created to die cut the tag from, I cut another in Kraft card to layer together, I stamped the Ranuncula flower in Polished Pink and Old Olive and die cut it and layered it onto my tag, I added the 'Hello' sentiment over the stem of the flower.  

To finish the card I added some of the matching lace and Petal Pink ribbon to my tag and trimmed down, I placed the tag onto the card at an angle using foam pads. 

The final finishing touch was some matching little pearl gems to opposite corners of the card and on the tag.

I hope you like the card Ladies, I do hope that you are enjoying this challenge too! 

Lucy wants me to go into town with her to find some smart trousers for the funeral next week, I could do with some too to be honest but most of our 'decent' shops in town have closed down, the town centre is like a ghost town.  Fingers crossed we find something.  Paul is going to try on his ''Hatches, Matches & Despatches'' suit to make sure it fits! 

I hope that you all have a lovely day, I think it will be an indoor day today looking at the weather,

Sending my love and hugs to all of you,

Sandra

xxxxxx