A Single Rose

This fortnight's snippets make is centred around a paper gift bag. The stripey side panels were far too good to throw away, so I chopped them off and added them to my snippets box where they have languished ever since.

I had the card all planned in my head - the spotty kraft background made by stencilling ink onto the card then embossing with gold powder, with a strip of stripey paper towards one side and the flower arranged on the strip. But it just didn't look in real life the way it did in my head, so it has evolved.

The rose is stamped on a snippet of jade card and heat embossed in gold. It's a very, very old stamp, at least 20 years, from the now-defunct Raindrops on Roses. However I arranged it on the background, though, it seemed to "melt" into it, so I gave it  bit of contrast by die cutting a small circle from a scrap of white and layering it onto the waste die cut circle from yesterday's kraft card.

I covered half of my stencilled background with the stripey paper then covered the join with sparkly washi tape then matted the whole thing on a scrap of dark blue card because my snippet of jade green had been too small. Finally I added my rose topper and a (very ancient) peel-off sentiment.

So there's LOTS of old stuff been used on this card, isn't it a good thing I hardly ever throw anything away?

I am sharing this with:

Pixie's Snippets Playground - challenge 365 

Retro Rubber - Anything goes 


The Flower Challenge - add spots or stripes 


Fab'nFunky - add some sparkle

Sweet Stampin - Make your own background