Thinking of You

Good Morning. I've been seeing a lot of hexagon motifs lately and recently purchased one of the Fiskars squeezeable handpunches at the new JoAnn's store that opened in our SC city.(on sale!) Also got a DCWV 12x12 pack of Butterfly Garden paper (half off). Hunted through this pack trying to find motifs that would fit nicely in the punch so that the design would be centered. (not as easily done as it would seem either). Finally punched out a bunch. I saw a tip at Stamping with Loll about giving the cutout motif more stability, so also punched out some very lightweight cardboard hexagons to glue to the paper. (the cardboard was leftovers from the magnet sheets I used in my Art Bin S/binder project). Then had to try to think of a pretty way to arrange some of these hexagons on a card.

I had been air brush experimenting recently - on an evening when I was not in the mood to make cards. Used a piece of white cardstock, different light shades of pink copics, and a piece of scrap lace as a stencil. Added some Tattered Angels gold spritz; not too impressed with the effort, so set aside. Another day I headed upstairs to the attic sewing area, dug around through a lace bin which has been collected over the years. Found another piece of lace that had a 'looser' weave, trotted back to the basement. Good exercise, going down 2 sets of stairs, 15 steps to the set! This lace worked better for what I hoped to achieve. Resprayed with the pinks, then the gold. Set aside. Later retrieved the piece to try to arrange the hexagons on it...thought if I embossed one side of the piece, separated with some score lines, placed the hexagons, it would work. So here it is:

 

- hexagons punched from DCWV Butterfly Garden paper

- Anna Griffin Poppy EF (it looks like a rose to me, but the label says Poppy)

- Elizabeth Craft sentiment die (a snippet that fit with my colors)

- rose started out white, got sprayed with some Dylusions sprays a while back; been hanging around at the air brush desk...green leaf got some overspray. I'm calling this a snippet too.

- sheer white bow from the stash, used a Candee received from Melissa  as part of the win on the Cards for Maddy that I submitted. Got some nifty goodies from Melissa, as well as finding another lovely blog to cruise. I'd never had any Candee embellishments, and thought it would look nice under the ribbon with a tiny pink rhinestone over it.

Called this one done and it's ready for when I need a sympathy, get well, or just plain ole Thinking of you card. I love it when a card is ready for an occasion..all I need do is add the appropriate insert.

Since I have a few snippety items on this card, I'm going to submit it to Pixie's Playground Snippet Challenge, Week 84.   I know each of you must have scraps (otherwise known as snippets at the Playground) so why not make up a cute card and join us. There's some good prizes, good fellowship, good fun, and always some lovely cards/projects to enjoy.

Thanks for joining me and ya'll come back soon. Hugs