U R Courage

Danielle inspired the beginning of this card with her challenge. When I saw her challenge I immediately thought about my alcohol inks that I haven't played with in a coons age. The colours of this card is much better in person, but it was hard to shoot and get all the different hues.

So, I pulled them out & began to play around with the Eclipse themed card, but it wasn't working for me. I gave up that idea and decided to work with the colours of my alcohol inked glossy paper. Then the creativity began to flow and my card became a "thinking of you" card of sorts for my girlfriend Ellena.

Most of you know that she is battling cancer right now. My girlfriends and I make sure that she receives at least one or two cards a week from us letting her know that we are thinking of her.

I am always on the look out for unique items to use on my cards or in my scrapbooks. A local store called, Green Earth, in Intercity Mall is one of my favourite shops to go to. It carries a lot of unique picture frames and now they have these fabulous charms that are meant for key chains or necklaces. I saw them and thought they would be a fabulous embellishment for cards and scrapbook pages.

I had purchased the key with the word courage on it with intentions of putting it on one of my cards for Ellena. I buy a lot of things for cards with good intention, but they don't always get on a card....this one did! So, I am very excited about that!

I used Scrapbook Sally Glimmer Paper for my base of my card. I alcohol inked white glossy paper to make the background paper for the front and inside of my card. The chipboard frames from Tattered Angels were also alcohol inked.

I used Basic Grey Bling it On Rub-ons & Bling, Maya Road Straight Pin, Prima Marketing "Say it in Pearls" Flourish, We R Memory Keepers metal photo corners & lettering and the ribbon & brads are just from my hodge podge of stuff and I don't know where they came from.

The sentiment on the inside of the card is from The Greeting Farm and I used brown Staz On ink to stamp on the glossy paper.

I have stepped out of my "box" for this card. I haven't created a card with a more serious tone to it in years because I have been having so much fun with all my fun, whimsical stamps that I can't stop buying. If you could see my scrap room and my kitchen right now, you would see how much fun I had putting this card together.

My grandparents were here today and my grandpa's reaction to my card was...is that leather on the card? That must have been a lot of work! My grandma's reaction was...WHOA!!! (with bulging eyes) and she analyzed the card for a good minute or two taking it all in. She had a stroke 2 years ago and has very minimal speech.

Maybe Ellena can just live with the photo on my blog and I will keep this one for myself....of course I am just kidding!