Pretty daisy throwback card

Good Morning Ladies, 

Well yesterday was a blur,  I wasn't looking forward to sitting and making 80 invitations,  it was so monotonous,  measuring scoring & folding the same thing over and over.  I did manage to re-jig the measurements and add the shaped 'flap' all on to one piece of card, I wanted a shaped edge which was going to mean another 160 die cuts,  so that felt like a win.  Becca came to help out too,  so we set her on making the wax seals,  Lucy wss letterpress printing the invitation while I was creating the wallet part of the invitation.  

We called it a day at around 7pm and then we needed to think about eating,  I had no energy, mentally or physically,  so we ended up having quesadillas and salad.  I was then ready for bed!  I got into bed and must have fallen asleep straight away,  but that didn't last long as a short time later I woke with an overwhelming urge to pee,  yes you guessed it the Uti symptoms are back.  I got about 90 minutes sleep total and had to be up early this morning as we are Bridesmaid dress shopping as we speak !! 

Sorry for the late post x

Here are the details for todays 'Throwback' card from April last year...

I used Dutch Doobadoo stencil 'Hessian ' I believe, with some Mowed Lawn DO, I varied the amount of pressure so that the ink was lighter in some places. I matted my background onto a SU Polished Pink' mat and then onto a white card base.

To make the flowers I took some off cuts of a watercolour card and die cut the flower from Tim Holtz Wildflower die set, I used the Mowed Lawn again, smooshing it into a into a non stick sheet, spritzed with water and dipped and dried a few layers onto my flower stalk, building up the colour while trying to keep the watercolour look.

I smooshed Kitch Flamingo and Picked Raspberry DO's into my mat and spritzed, a did a few layers but wanted more of a textured look, the Kitsch Flamingo and Picked Raspberry seemed to just blend together, so I remembered that I did a project a while back where I combined Distress Ink with Distress Oxide, so I got my Picked Raspberry Distress Ink and smooshed that onto my mat and spritzed it, I wanted to try and pick up the tiny little dots of ink that you get when you use non stick mat, (it doesn't create dots on glass mats). I made sure my flowers were dry and then ever so gently lowered them down onto those pretty pink dots, i barely let the flower touch the ink, I quickly dried them to fix those dots before they disappeared, I dip another dip and then stopped. The flower centres are made using the original Flower Soft' I have had it since it was first shown on C&C easily 12+ years ago! I quite like the texture it gives it does look quite realistic. 

I fiddled around until I was happy with the position of the flowers and then glued them down, I stamped a quick Tim Holtz sentiment, which worked well with the flowers! I am really pleased with how it turned out, especially the flowers! 

I hope you all have a good day, 

Love & hugs to all  

Sandra xxx