Smile!!!

Yes!! Thinking of you always makes me smile...How nice is this sentiment by Hero Arts. Like the depth of the meaning of just few words....there are so many special people who make me smile...I bet you all also have those special ones :)

So here I come with another new to me card. This is so very different than my usual style. I had to create a card with this lovely inspiration photo at Moxie Fab Tuesday Trigger challenge  (Love all the patterns and textures) and then of coarse the colors at The Play Date cafe are just Yumm!!! On top, I got this new stamp from my last Hero Arts win, which I had to ink.I tried to use new techniques to me on this card. The use of stamps on pattern paper (those leaves) look beautiful, stamping on cork, crackle accent on the butterflies and then a kind of shabby and clustered look.
I love to play along the challenges at Hero Arts and specially when it inspires me to try something new (That is the January contest) and the same theme is at A Blog Named Hero too.

My card:

Love it, I am enjoying creating this style of cards a lot. Thanks for dropping by!!!

Supplies: Cardstock: ( Dessert storm, Solar white) Neenah; Pattern paper: (Victoria Garden, winter wishes) Echo Park paper co.; Stamps: (Be Silly, Designer Woodgrain) Hero Arts, (Turning a new leaf, filliable frame#1) PTI; Ink: (Memento Black) Tsukineko, (Terracotta tile) PTI; Crackle accent: Ranger industries; Twine: May Arts; Machine stitching