Musical Field Beauty

Good morning!  Today's card has a bit of a vintage vibe with some distressing and a little shimmer.  I started by stamping the gorgeous Field Flowers from Technique Junkies onto some white cardstock.  Then I pulled out the Vintage Music background stamp (also Technique Junkies) and very lightly pressed over the flowers.  I didn't want a full impression of the music - just a very distressed uneven hint of it.

Once I was sure the black ink was completely dry, I pulled out some Shimmering Bliss sprays.  I shook up the Lapis Lazuli and Mardi Gras Purple Shimmering Bliss bottles and sprayed some onto my glass mat.  I misted the colors with a little bit of water and then pressed my stamped paper into the puddles.  I repeated this until I got the coverage I wanted and then set the paper aside to dry.

To create the matching ribbon, I cut a length of seam binding and crumpled it up into my hand.  Then I pressed this seam binding into the pool of color that was left over on my glass mat.  After I got the entire piece of seam binding colored, I crumpled it up again in my hands and left it alone to dry.

While my stamped panel and my ribbon were drying, I stamped the sentiment, Its Own Beauty, with black ink onto a small strip of white cardstock.  When the stamped panel was completely dry, I distressed the edges with a distress tool and adhered it to a black card base.  I tied the dyed seam binding around the top of the card and adhered the sentiment with some foam tape near the bottom.

This card has a beautiful soft shimmer that you can see when you move it around in the light.  There's also a subtle trace of that shimmer in the seam binding.  It's fun to have some shimmery goodness mixed with a distressed, vintage-y piece.  It's part of that shabby chic charm.  

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