Hi everyone! My favorite thing to do when I'm stumped is to surf the blogs of those who inspire me. I always find a card I want to case! What usually happens is I start out thinking "Perfect, I'm gonna copy this entire card EXACTLY" but as I get going it transforms into something else entirely because my own flavour always comes through. This is the beauty of casing! It's a great jumping off point.
Today, my card was inspired by Erica Cerwin. You can see her fantastic blog at http://www.pinkbuckaroodesigns.blogspot.com ... she is great! This is her card....
And this is my card....
My card uses the new paper daisies, which I simply sponged with ink to colour them. The centers are punched from Chocolate Chip cardstock, then covered in Crystal Effects, then sprinkled with Micro Beads. How ashamed I am that I've had Micro Beads sitting in the embellishment drawer for TWO YEARS and not used them! They are awesome - look what I was missing! {Only down size is if you don't prepare your work surface well enough, they WILL run all over the damn place and you WON'T find them again!} I also cut a swirl from the Decorative Strip die and accented with 2 Old Olive brads.
Here is a close up of the Micro Beads in case anyone is interested:
Hope you like :)
