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When you make a conscious choice to be happy, no one can take it away from you because no one gave it to you: you gave it to yourself.

A quote from April Green's - Bloom For Yourself Journal

Thursday 6 September 2012

Spellbinding card?

Good afternoon - yesterday many of you saw my desk at the beginning of this card - everything out, ready to go. So I wanted to share the finished card with you.





Inspired by Sue Wilson and her Spellbinders demo's I set to work attempting to have a go at her style, sort of! I used the neutral card Sue raves about and embossed the background with Sheena Douglas's Daisy folder. Then I used my limited Spellbinders collection to die cut the shapes for the card.  For the top one, I printed the sentiment first then cut it, then embossed it and finally I ran it back through to flatten the pattern a bit, why I don't know, it just seemed the thing to do!

Of course, you can't do a 'Sue' card without putting a bow on it, so I created a bow from the lace, which also had a daisy design on it, but it's hard to see on here. I added the hat pins and a small dragonfly charm.  Some gold card Candi finished off the small dies. 

Funnily enough, this card is for my friend, Sue, so the whole 'Sue Wilson' style seemed very apt, I shall tell my friend the inspiration behind her card afterwards.

Hope you like it. Take care Zo xx

10 comments:

Di said...

Yay! This is brilliant Zo - see you on TV soon. And, might I add that you even managed to take some great photos too - notoriously difficult to achieve with neutrals. Go girl! Di xx

McCrafty's Cards said...

Beautiful card Zoe, I like the embossing, the sentiment and the flowers, very classy.
Kevin xx

Elizabeth said...

Beautiful card, Zo, like this even better than Sue's. Elizabeth xx

Karen said...

It's so very beautiful... simply stunning hun.xx

coops said...

so stunning zoe.really classy and beautiful :D

xx coops xx

Pop's Cards said...

Hey sweetie, I just totally love this creation, fabulous sweetie, huggles Pops x x x

Pop's Cards said...

Good morning sweetie this is just gorgeous, so beautiful, huggles Pops x x x

Dee's Craft Room said...

Lovely card Zo, I love the white on white look, it have worked really well.

Dionne xx

June Nelson said...

This is so beautiful sweetie love the embossing and everything just gorgeous, huggies june xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

emma mitchell said...

Hi Zoe this card is so elegant and stunning .
Hugs Emma xx