One still, secret place

Hi blog friends! I hope you all had a wonderful holiday weekend and are ready for the week to start and things to get back to normal.

It's the middle of the night right now, my little dog is lying at my feet, snoring, and I'm not going to last much longer either before I have a computer crash--literally--when I fall over asleep and end up with an imprint of my keyboard across my forehead, so this will be a short post.

I spent part of the 4th making a red, white, and blue card, in keeping with the Independence Day theme, and I used this week's Mojo Monday sketch, #198.

The silver colored vertical strip on this card is shimmer paper that has been dry embossed and sponged with Black Soot Distress Ink on the edges to make it look like a piece of old metal.

 

I haven't decorated the inside of too many cards, but I wanted to use a particular flourish stamp in the Blue Skies stamp set and couldn't find a good place on the card front, so I put it inside instead. The stamp is beautiful. I didn't leave much room for a personal message in this card, but sometimes less really is more.

And, on that note, I'll say goodnight. Thanks for stopping by. 

 

Stamps: Blue Skies (Verve); Faux Finish (Stampendous)

Paper: Simply Delightful stack (My Mind's Eye); Coredinations; Paper Studio; Shimmer Stack (DCWV)

Ink: Colorbox; Distress Ink

Accessories: Fleur de Lis Motifs & Blossom Two dies (Spellbinders); 2" square punch (EK Success); Organic embossing folder (Cuttlebug); clear embossing powder (Zing); organza ribbon (Offray); staples; rhinestones; jewel brad; Liquid Pearls; sewing; paint marker; dimensionals.

Size: 5.5" x 4.25"

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