Beautiful Lady

A good excuse to break out some stamps that are sitting in my collection but rarely used because of DT commitments and that is the fabulous challenge over at the new challenge blog of "Through The Purple Haze". Not only have they got Indigo Blu sponsoring the first challenge but there's an AWESOME prize at the end of the year if a person gets an entry into each of the challenges between 15th July and 16th December. You really need to check this out!!

Anyway, my card.

I started off by applying gilding flakes to the image (Ella Bella) stamped with glue onto black card. Fussy cut out parts so that a die cut could be used without losing any of the gorgeous curls and swirls. Then matted onto old gold coloured pearlised card.

The BP is from a Bo-Bunny stack, Weekend Market Collection. Using brown ink, I stamped round the outside with the lace stamp from the Indigo Blue set, Mr Darcy. The dark cream lace is from stash and attached all the way round before attaching to the deep red card base. The same collection yielded the sentiment as well. This was stamped with stazon onto pearlised deep red card, diecut out and matted onto the same old gold as before.
The filigree "flower" is a memory box die, cutting from the same deep red and old gold and layering up. Tiny gems in deep red and golden yellow were attached at various places.

Well that's my card folks. Hope you like it as much as I had fun making it. Thank you for taking the time to look.

I'd like to enter this card into the challenge at
Through the Purple Haze - challenge #1 Anything Goes with Indigo Blu
Indigo Blu Challenges - Summer  [golden days and red skin (for some) sum up summer for me]
C is for Challenge - Summer [see above]