An orchid note

Hi again, today's card was made for 4 challenges!  They are Our Creative Corner "cut it out" , The MoxieFabWorld's Stamping with Shimmer Sprays for the Stamp It! Techniques Week, The Cupcake Inspirations #98 pic above and I have based the card on the Waltzing Mouse SC #34, also shown above.  It is quite rare for me to be able to combine challenges, at least usually not more than two!

~For the card base, I took two green velum panels and before sandwiching together to place in an embossing folder, I laid one of the panels in white craft ink.  I like the effect that the craft ink gives to the plain area of the velum, like a parchment.

~I stamped the Lockheart orchid in PTI black ink and clear embossed.  This gave me the little "walls" that I wanted to contain the glaze and shimmer mist in place.

~I used a Claudine Helmuth white glaze on the orchid petals and painted the leaves with a green shimmer mist from Tattered Angels.  The pot was coloured with a few Copic markers.

~I used a lavender coloured thread to stitch around the edges to a BG Kioshi patterned paper larger panel.

~I stamped this ornate frame from PTI's Mat Stack II stamp set and painted the same glimmer mist into the open work of the flourished frame.  It looks like a different colour on the purple BG paper, but it is the same shimmery green.  Fussy cut this out.

~I stitched this narrow hand dyed ribbon with the same thread, using a straight stitch and cinched up to form the teeny ruffling effect, laid across the front panel and wrapped around the card front before adhering the panel to a white card base.

That's it :)

Thanks for taking a peek today, your kind comments are always appreciated !

Seeds in My Cup

stamps  ~ Lockheart orchid, PTI Mat Stack II frame and sentiment

paper    ~ green vellum, Basic Grey Kioshi

ink        ~ PTI True Black Hybrid

access.  ~ Treenway silk ribbon, Tattered Angel shimmer mist"Wicked", Claudine Helmuth white        enamel, Copic markers, SU Tulip Frame EF