Retrosketches and Creative Friday and Welcome to 2 New Members

Good news - I have two more members on my blog - yeahh, its growing and that makes me happy! I want to welcome 

Desire

and 

Wendy Nicola

I am glad you found my blog Ladies and decided to join! I picked a welcome photos for you:

It is a quilt by Ellen Anne Eddy, its called "Skinny Dipping". She is a quilt artist from Indiana. This beautiful quilt was exhibited recently in a small museum close to where I live. I took a lot of pictures there, but I choose this one, because it fits my card.....It almost looks like it inspired me to make the card (maybe unconsciously......), but I choose the picture after it was done....

So, that is my card - it was a painful process and took me a few days to arrive here - so atypical for me, usually I am quite fast....

So how did I do this one - I first stamped my favorite Ryn Tanaka  water droplet stamp with Staz-on on acetate. Then I ran the acetate through a Cuttlebug Embossing Folder. Make sure the Staz-on is really dry before you do that, otherside it messes up you embossing folder (guess how I know that...?) I added Stickles to the indentations of the acetate (on the back side of it) and let it dry over night. By the way - the droplets are on the back too. I added some white accents onto the water drops. 

I used a tag die by Mama Elephant to die cut the acetate and the background paper. Embroidery floss is holding the tags together. I then stamped the sentiment on white card stock and ran it through my Big shot with the same embossing folder. And then I assembled the entire card. Not so difficult, huh! You wonder what took so long? Well, the entire card was a try and error thing until I felt it looks right. I think it was worth the effort, I just love to look at it - it sparkles nicely and still is CAS.

I am linking this card with

 Creative Friday - Glitter

Snippets Playground - use a snippet (tag paper, background strip and little orange ring thingy)

retrosketches - tag