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This is intended to be mainly about my crafting stories, as a personal record of what I do. However, I interpret crafting quite widely, not just paper crafting but other things too. I have a butterfly mind and like to change from one thing to another depending on what I feel like on a given day - knitting, crochet, cross-stitch, cards, baking and several others, including my favourite right now, parchment, both traditional skills and Groovi, very relaxing and calming to do.

I have decided to put some structure into my blog so that each day will have something of a theme.
Monday- for Mindfulness; Tuesday - Tidy Up Day; Wednesday - What's on Your Workdesk Wednesday; Thursday - Technique and Tips; Friday - Finish Off Day; Saturday - Start Something New; Sunday - Anything Goes
These themes are not hard and fast and will be changed if I feel the need.

Saturday 11 February 2012

Less is More - Week 54 - One Layer and Stripes

Having gone into panic mode over stripes, my mojo suddenly bounced back, and this card appeared.  The flower is a surfinia cut (digitally) from one of my own photos, and then added to the design page in My Craft Studio.  Before I added the stripes, I embossed the flower to give it some texture.  Then I added the sentiment to match to match the stripes before printing the whole thing out.

11 comments:

Chrissie said...

All this techy computery stuff is so clever!
Pretty card Maggie!
Thanks so much
Chrissie
"Less is More"

Mrs A. said...

This is stunning. The flower almost pops off the page at you. Hugs Mrs A.

Karen said...

This is really beautiful Maggie, Luv Karen xx

Mandi said...

Stripes give a good base to designs
Lovely flower
Thank you very much
mandi
"Less is More"

Di said...

Fabulous Maggie and so spot on for the LIM challenge! I have strips of tape and goodness knows what for masking on my desk right now - but you've cracked it perfectly. A winner in my eyes! Di xx

Beryl K said...

Super card, great digi work
Beryl x

Faith A at Daffodil Cards said...

Beautiful card and great editing of the flower, (my kind of stuff)
would love to know how you embossed the flower, it's lovely

Suze Bain said...

Beautiful card Maggie. xx

Kathyk said...

Simple and very elegant - fab

Kathyk

Angelnorth said...

Striking flower image, lovely card!

Diane said...

Clever card your photo is amazing!
Diane