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This card was made for our local swap challenge - to make our own coloured paper background or focal point...

I embossed the background panel with a Memory Keepers geometric folder, then swiped  an inkpad over the 'high points', which made the design look more like flowers!!

The feature panel was a piece of 'mop up' card, and I have no idea of the medium I mopped up, apart from the fact it had some mica in it!

The sentiment I die cut and mounted over a layer of foam. 

The flower I diecut and painted with mica paints, then mounted over three layers of card.  It looked a bit lost on the background, so I used a marker to colour the edges a wee bit darker than the tops, and it worked beautifully

What I also did on the main panel was add three yellow enamel dots, but these are only shown in the main photo, as I added them after I had done most of the shots...

The inside was finished with trimmings from the feature panel, the envelope I used washi tape on.

I am linking this to;

Word Art Wednesday Challenge Weeks #738 +739 - Anything Goes

Pammie's Inky Pinkies Challenge #2606 - Anything Goes

Allsorts Challenge #843 - Embossing

Can You Handle The Pressure - Anything Goes - Twist of Die Cuts

Sweet Stampin' Challenge - No Designer Paper

The Alphabet Challenge - U is for Uplifting

The recipient said this card really cheered her up

Momigami - aka kneaded paper!

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Sorry I have not been around much, but I have discovered that the reason I have not been keen on blogging, or visiting blogs, is because my eyes have deteriorated and I need new prescriptions for my glasses - all three pairs.  My everyday, my reading and my dark/driving lenses all need to be adjusted, and to top it all off, cataracts are starting to affect my sight also. 

This was a card for the local swap group I am in, and the challenge was to use momigami, (this is a video link, and the technique starts at approx 8 minute mark) or paper kneading on the card.... 

I chose a handmade paper which had these gorgeous gold 'flowers' on it - and they survived the technique

As I wanted the paper to be the focal point, I simply stamped a gerbera (Uniko) in ladybug ink,  watercoloured it with the same ink, and diecut it before adding the micro beads in the centre.

The sentiment was die cut from a piece of card I had also painted with the ladybug ink, then it was adhered to a yellow panel

The panel and flower were adhered using my hot glue gun, as well as the paper to the base, as the result of the paper treatment left it somewhat glue resistant. 

All the edges were coloured using the red ink.. even the insert panel, which I decorated with washi tape.

As I don't often make square cards, I had to make an envelope for it - I used double sided paper, and used a white sticker for the address panel.

I am linking this to:

Pammie's Inky Pinkies Challenge #2604 - Anything Goes

Word Art Wednesday Challenge Weeks #736 +737 - Anything Goes

Craft Rocket Challenge #132 - Something New 

(the stamp  and die were NBUS, the technique new to me)

Elliebelle's Gard Party #11 - Anything from or in a garden goes