Tamara's Paper Trail: Balloon Celebration Dandelion Wishes

Wednesday, March 2, 2016

Balloon Celebration Dandelion Wishes

Happy Wednesday!

I SHOULD be working out … or tiding the breakfast dishes … but I'm procrastinating. I don't wanna. I ALSO don't wanna go to the dentist at 11:00. Not even a little bit. Kinda hate the dentist. Well - not the dentist himself - nice enough guy - but thanks to an evil orthodontist I had when I was 13 I have a dread of going. Yup. That man emotionally scarred me pretty badly. When I was older, and moved out from home it was up to ME to make dentist appointments. Didn't make one for 13 years. No kidding. I finally went but only because I was moving to England and figured I should. No cavities! I figured I did our health care system a favour my not going for those 13 years :) I now try to go every 9 months … but have been putting it off this round. As I said - kinda hate it ….

So help me procrastinate, ok? Let's look at a FAB little card I made last week for my upcoming Stamp-a-Stack (still 3 spots left … just sayin' ….)

LOVE! What I love SOOO much about this card is the little dandelion seed. It comes from the Birthday Celebration set. No - it wasn't designed to be a dandelion seed - it was designed as an accent to a balloon … but it's perfect for a seed! Check it out …

LOVE!

While I love the final product I came up with it literally took me HOURS to "get there". Here are m rejects …

Square - with twine ...

… without twine ...

… and there were about 4 more varioustion - with doilies, with thread, with stars, different colours. Seriously - I think I tried every possible permutation possible! In the end I settled on one I loved.

Details - the images are stamped in Archival Black - the splotches are from Gorgeous Grunge in Smoky Slate. I used a metallic doily behind the popped up 2 1/2" sentiment, which is from the Lovely Amazing You set. It's available, but not in the catalogue …