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Boz Towers, Essex, United Kingdom
I'm a Red Hat Society member with a love of crafting of all sorts. A very proud mum to four fabulous children and Nan to six gorgeous grandchildren. I started work as a milliner and now have an abiding love of scrapbooking and card making.

The lovely people that drop by ~ thank you.

Tuesday, 27 September 2011

Parchment Challenge

Our smashing MSE friend, Jenny (aka Dragonllew) is one of the first people to usually leave a lovely comment on my posts.  I follow her blog too and noticed that she had made a card with parchment as part of her role on the DT of C.R.A.F.T. Challenges 

After seeing Jenny's beautiful card I thought I'd have a go.  Well, it didn't turn out too well so I'm not showing that and then I had one of those light bulb moments and used a die called Anemone Flower Topper from Spellbinders. I used an embossing tool on the inner petal to make the flower more opaque.  It reminds me of a waterlily.
 
I hope they like it. It turned out to be just the sort of card a good friend likes, clean and simple.   Rotten light, sorry!

I'd like to enter this card into the following

16 comments:

dragonllew said...

Jennie this is fantastic so elegant I love that die thanks for joining our challenge at CRAFT this week glad I inspired you to have a go.
Jenny x

Debbie (Little Gingham Bear) said...

that's beautiful Jennie - gorgeous flower die xx

Marg said...

That's a beautiful classically elegant card Jennie, I love it x

Sarah said...

Oh wow, this is stunning Jennie! Love the flower, so elegant x

Trimgym said...

Great project Jenny, thank you for joining us at CRAFT Challenge this week and good luck! Don't forget to check back with us again on Thursday for our new challenge and to check if you have won or made our Top3.

Jo and Tigerlover.

Heather said...

Beautiful card- the black and white is very elegant as is the flower topper. Thanks for joining us at Squigglefly this week.

kelly said...

Beautiful card,thanks for joing us at CRAFT.
Kelly GDT for September.

Nikbee said...

A fantastic card. I love the gorgeous flower. Thank you for joining us at CRAFT.
Nikki x
GDT CRAFT for September.

sharon said...

Wow it's great, what a wonderful idea to use parchment for the flowers. Thanks for playing along at CRAFT challenge. Sharon x

June Houck said...

Lovely card! The flower and border strip are wonderful. Thanks for playing along with our B&W +1 challenge at Shopping Our Stash :)

Holly Young said...

Oh it's just gorgeous! I will have to look for that die. I think it would make a pretty Christmas poinsettia too. Thanks for playing in Squigglefly's challenge!

Danni said...

Beautiful card, so striking and elegant! Thank you for playing along with Shopping Our Stash!

JD/ Jill said...

Very pretty! After looking at your blog profile picture, I feel like I need to go put on the red hat bonnet that I made for me...

Choccy said...

Stunning card Jennie.. Infact its absolutely gorgeous !!

Hugs
Choccy xx

LisaG said...

Lovely card. The flower is beautiful and the monochromatic theme is stunning.

Well done.

Lisa
CBGM Design Team

Sabina said...

Hello,
a nice card, for this theme.
Thank you for joining at Creations by Gill M
Hugs
Sabina