
The quote stamped on the card says ‘creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. art is knowing which ones to keep’, and I really like it. It is part of a Tim Holtz set I bought at my LSS recently, as is the lion rampant.
This card does have mistakes.
I embossed the lion with Tim Holtz Distress Embossing powder (colour: Brushed Corduroy). This embossing powder is a little different than the standard, so I did a test on some scrap card to see what it was like – that was all fine. I wanted the lion image over the 3 different papers – the background (Core’dinations cardstock), the stripe (DCWV Sweet Stack), and the paisley circle (Heidi Grace designs for Fiskars). So I glued everything down with a glue stick, let it dry, then stamped my lion with blue ink and applied the embossing powder. Then I held it over the burner of my stove.

The lion came out fine. The rest of the card did not fare so well: the heat from the stove released the glue! Only near the lion though, so it was awkward to get the glue stick in there without bending things, so I resorted to white glue. And because I was frustrated with the card for doing that to me, I used a lot. Now the front of the card is stiff and slightly bowed from all that glue. Oh well, I love how it looks!
The layout is from Pollycraft Monday’s most recent Challenge – #27.
Cardstock: Core’dinations
Papers: DCWV, Fiskars, Recollections, grey scrap for lace border
Stamps: Tim Holtz (Ranger)
Ink: Versamark Brilliance (Blue), Autumn Leaves black
Misc: Martha Stewart doily border punch, Making Memories button brad, Prima Fancies flowers (dabbed with same Brilliance ink)
I also used the Scor-Bug that I bought at the same time as my Scor-Pal for the double row of dots at the bottom.
I made another card today too, with the same base. Both these cards are 6″x6″ – I cut them from the same 12″x12″ piece of Core’dinations cardstock. I need to get some more plain cardstock!

The lace border on the bottom edge is even the same paper as the blue stripe on the card above!

I wanted to try some more paper piecing, and I need to get on my Christmas cards, so I pulled out this Hero Arts snowman. The blue/cream for the hat and jacket is Making Memories paper – it’s a fleur de lis design. The red is the same throughout this card, a paper from SEI’s Christmas Mint collection. I like how it’s a holiday card, but not your usual red and green.

This is a sketch from Sketch Saturday’s Sketch #74.
Cardstock: Core’dinations
Papers: DCWV, SEI Christmas Mint
Stamps: Hero Arts
Ink: Autumn Leaves black (I went over it with black fine-point Sharpie)
Misc: Martha Stewart doily border punch, Hero Arts felt snowflakes, Making Memories button brad, American Crafts clear jewel brad, ‘Frosted Lace’ Stickles, very old stickers from my stash.