I have just remembered that there's a picture in my file of a card I threatened to show last summer but said it would serve as an Awful Warning rather than a Good Example. In fact, it turned out rather better than first indicated although it still leaves much to be desired. The initial idea wasn't bad, but it would have been better on a smaller card than the A5 I used. This blue card is just one sheet of many that I bought at a craft show last year - that particular stall is so seductive, with single colour packs laid out in rows of graduated shading.....blues from the palest baby blue to a rich indigo, reds from pastel pink to deep crimson, et cetera. I bought several packs and had to be forcibly restrained from buying two or three more of each.
Having made my basic dandelion card (stamps by Inkylicious, with detail white embossing powder) I decided it needed something more, so stamped the floating seeds all round the border using Versamark ink - only to see it disappear as I watched! So I tried again using a blue inkpad, and the same thing happened. That card is a sponge!!! It's fine for matting but absolutely useless for stamping - and funnily enough a friend found exactly the same thing that same day, as we discovered one morning later in the week when we had coffee together. I put the card aside in a rather disgruntled mood, but not long afterwards I went to a gathering of local craft friends and learnt how to make various types of small bows to use as embellishments. One involved punching two holes close together and threading a short length of ribbon back and forth to make a faux bow; I tried it using a white and silver organza ribbon, added another piece across the width and couldn't believe how much better it looked. And here it is.
