Make your Life Worth Loving Greeting Card

Hello there and happy Sunday to all of you fine friends! Ginny here to share that it's finally showing some signs of Spring here in mid Michigan! I'm so very excited to bask in the sunshine and open the windows and maybe even fall asleep to the sound of the Spring Peepers in the big pond.

Isn't this a sweet vintagy sewing inspired greeting card? I'm using the chippies to create a faux frame look by tucking them into the layers.

I love how they anchor the focal arrangement and extends it to make it look bigger.

To balance the chippies I'm adding a small row of pearly accents.

Loads of pretty flowers here chosen to coordinate with the vintage image.

Vintage buttons just seem so right on this sewing inspired card.

Fun number plate in white is a shabby chic inspired embellishment that's added with twine.

This Art Deco Corner Set is my newest obsession because sometimes you want the look of a frame...but you don't want to worry about hiding parts of it behind embellishments. Just use these where they'll show!

I wiped them down with a cloth to prepare them for altering. They are finished with heat set embossing powder that has a lovely white and pink and gold speckle. It's so dreamy!!!

Gypsy Soul Laser Cuts Supplies~ Art Deco Corner Set, Number Plate.

wishing everyone a happy and productive day : ) G

Lover's Eye Shadow Box

This month for Gypsy Soul Laser Cuts I've created something mystical and sort of romantic: a lover's eye shadow box.

I started with Gypsy Soul's Deco Front Shadowbox as the base, and added wings from the Wings Assortment to the top of the framed area.

I've always been fascinated with miniature 'lover's eye' paintings and so, with it being so close to Valentine's Day, decided to add my own to this piece. I painted an eye on a small piece of thick watercolour paper, placed it in a watch hob, then surrounded it with rhinestones.

Lover's eye paintings were popular during the late 1700s and early 1800s. The first such painting was exchanged between the Prince of Wales and a widowed commoner. They were tiny, discreet tokens, intimate portraits to give to ones lover. I won't tell you whose eye this is...

Inside I've placed replicas 15th century Visconti-Sforza tarot cards, The Empress and Death. The Empress is one of my favourite cards, representing not only feminity, but wisdom and creation. And Death isn't such a bad fellow. He might mark some sort of ending or conclusion which makes way for positive change. 

I've added a little number 7 at the bottom. Seven symbolizes perfection and unity... and it's lucky!

Some Victorian Corners painted copper and topped with flat back pearls complete the piece. Pearls represent wisdom and luck... both things we could all do with in matters of love.

If you'd like to make your own, I have a walk through available HERE

Materials:

Deco Front Shadowbox
Wings Assortment
Faux Metal Number Plates
Victorian Corners 2

Watch hob
Acrylic paint
Rhinestones

Mini Floral Dresden BordersGlue

Paper
• Distressed 6x6
• Prima Marketing, Wild & Free - Let's Be Wild

Glitter

Flat back pearls

Brads