Mother's Day Card

I am not as sure about the colour of this one now as I was in the shop! But at least it's not Green ;p!

I like the reduced size of the cream insert against the orange, it looks well with the outline - it may become a feature...

The embossing on the front, hmmm: I knew I wanted the main flower and the lickle-ickle flower which is looking up to it, aw, to be highlighted, but as I was scattering the powder on the first card quite a lot clung to the ink of the surrounding flowers...and I thought I'd see what that looked like, as I liked the idea of it looking like a reflected glow from the main flower...and it kinda does.

Kinda!

I wasn't completely sold, so for the second one I cleaned it up much more, but filled in the leaves to have a little wow factor. Hmm. Again, not completely sold on that, but some of the pictures of both cards did come out well.

Finally, I was considering a little white ribbon holding the two pieces of the card together, which would bring some more colour to the front of the card, but then I tried the reduced insert and so had to stick it in to keep the lovely surround. Again: hmmm!

St. Patrick's Day Card #2

This one took a little more 'thinking', and drawing up the knotwork was a bit difficult. I thought I HAD it but the embossing does muddy up some of the finer details (fun game, see if you can spot where...!) (Please don't!) I'll see if I can give it a bit of a touch up.

Also, curses, this paper I'm using has a smooth and a rough side...and I never know which I prefer for images and embossing...In these cards the textured side of the white card shows as the second panel of the flag, which works well as it leaves the writing side inside smooth. My mistake was in having the green smooth side out - what possessed me? I'll definitely try changing it next time.

But I do like this idea, of the tricolor...Yep, I think I probably definitely do.