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Monday 12 April 2010

Totally Gorgeous Polka Doodles

Julie and I went to Ally Pally on Saturday and had a fabulous time.  I spent way too much money on way too many toys including four background stamps; two of which are made by Impression Obsession and measure just under 6 inches square.   The theme over at Polka Doodles is "wedding" and this week Totally Gorgeous wants "texture" so I used one of these really large stamps with some Versamark and silver embossing powder to make the background for a wedding card for the sister of my son-in-law who is getting married this month.  A little more Versamark and silver embossing powder on my Papermania sentiment stamp and ... voila... a simple card using the bride's chosen colour theme of white and silver.
When I started this project I had flowers in mind but with all that silver and the lovely texture of the embossing I decided that anything more on this card would detract from it's elegance.
I don't know what is wrong with my photography lately - everything seems to have a strange colour cast - sorry about that. 

14 comments:

Julie said...

Beautiful, elegant card - I love that background stamp, and it certainly doesn't need any embellishment here!! Juliexx

debby4000 said...

Oh this is gorgeous Lesley and so elegant.
luv
Debby

dolcreations said...

Lesley this is elegant. I have tried my hand at embossing and find it is not the easiest, so I certainly do appreciate this beautiful work!

Unknown said...

Beautiful card, it is so elegant. I love your new stamp, so many possibilities!!
Angela x

Faye said...

What a gorgeous card. It is absolutely beautiful. xxx

Kat said...

This is lovely. Love the texture. Thanks for joining us at TG this week.

Kat x

Nettie said...

The stamped detail on your card is so pretty. Very chic.x

Alex said...

Hello Lesley, gorgeous card and I am sorry I seem to have missed lots of your posts in the last few days. They are all fab but I haven't got the time now to comment on each one, so sorry! It was lovely to meet you at Ally Pally and I look forward to having more time to drool over your creations. You inspire!!

Love, Alex

Julie said...

Your card is very elegant. I was quite tempted by these as well but stamps weren't on my shopping list. Did buy the hugely expensive curved acrylic block though!

Kerry said...

Lovely elegant card. Thanks for joining us at Polkadoodles this week.

katesacraftybugger said...

simply a beautiful wedding card , thanks for joining us at polkadoodles

Stacey said...

such an elegant card! wonderful!!! thank you for playing along with us at polka doodles this week x x x

Debs said...

Beautiful card.. Thanks for playing along at TG this week…Debs

FauxPainter - Dee Paramour said...

A simple but very effective card. Thanks for taking part in the Polka Doodles challenge