All Occasion Card - a Style Potpourri...

Happy Monday, everyone! Today's share is a fun mix of styles - a bit freestyle collage, shabby chic, and mixed media - all in one little card.

The freestyle collage comes in with the lighthearted layering of mixed patterned papers and elements...the shabby chic with the distressed edges and subtle, vintage color mix...and the mixed media with a couple of coloring techniques on the background and the flower cluster...

The floral cluster starts with a couple large flat flowers that have been in my stash for a loooooong time. :)  I stacked them, then added a crocheted lace piece and more paper roses. All the roses were lightly coated with a dry-brushed layer of gesso to soften the colors and blend them together in a shabby-chic way...

This center rose started out ecru in color, the same as the crocheted piece beneath it. I used Lindy's Stamp Gang C'est la Vie Cerise Magical to tint the rose to match the highlights of this Magical paint that I had used around the edges of the background patterend papers...

Tiny gold microbeads were glued all around the floral cluster...just for fun...

Supplies:

Patterned papers:   Prima "Almanac" "Nature Garden" "Botanical" and "Zephyr" collections

Color medium:   Lindy's Stamp Gang Magical - C'est la Vie Cerise

Large flowers:   Prima, Petaloo             Small roses:   Wild Orchid Crafts

Crochet doily & rose, bordered velvet ribbon:   Prima

Pearls:   Recollections             Lace:   TheFunkieJunkie.com            Stamen cluster:   local craft store

Miscellaneous:   gold micro beads,  twine,  thread,  gel medium

Thanks for coming by for a visit today - I hope your week is starting with a smile!