Fuchsias

Sometimes I don't get enough time to play with releases each month, so it's always fun to bring them out again!  This was Febrary's beautiful set Old Fashioned Florals.  While my husband was in the hospital especially in the early days after surgery, he was often sleeping or drugged on morphine, I would colour while I sat with him.  So, I had this image coloured but hadn't had a chance to put it into a card yet.  Fuchias are such a pretty and unique basket flower, with so many options for colouring too.  I went with purples and pinks with this one.  

The image is stamped on Flourishes Classic White with Memento Tuxedo Black ink, die cut out with our Perfectly Pierced Classic Frames Die, and then framed out with the gorgeous Perfectly Pierced Victorian Ovals die on Flourishes Color Made Easy - Candy Pink cardstock.    Behind that framing is Bo Bunny purple cut with the Radiant Rectangles die (stunning I have to say) , and an older strip of Bo Bunny Garden Girl dp.  Doesn't the embossing look just like the fuchias?  It's a new folder from Spellbinders called Whimsical Flora.  I love how the dots in the folder go with the piercing in the dies.  

For finishing details I added some elderberry seambinding, rhinestones, and a violet rhinestone button tied with white Iridescent string.   Sorry, I don't have a list of the copics I used, as it was coloured in the hospital, and that was one thing I didn't keep track of.  Looks like some RV's and V's in there, maybe even some BV's too!  I left the design without a sentiment.  To me it just looked finished the way it was.  Sometimes cards just work out that way!

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Fuchsias