Waste not Want not!

Whilst making my LIM entry I got inky fingers & didn't realise, putting inky marks on the edge of my card :-(

the rest of the card was fine so I cut off the inky edges, mounted it onto red bazil & made another card!

I added the flesh colour to the image to balance out the stronger use of the red on the card so the eye is drawn to the image.

This obviously wasn't appropriate for the Less is More challenge as it wasn't a one layer card but I have another card made ready for when it is needed :-)

Anyone else do this kind of thing?

My Random Swap effort ...

Over at UK Stampers I joined in with the Random Swap project

We were each sent 5 random items to make an art work with

These were my 5 random items ......

And this is what I made .......

I used the wire to make a heart which i used as a bent frame for part of the picture I was given.

Remember Valentines Day is on Monday!

I added the sentiment stamped onto the paper I was given

 & backed onto the paper strip which I coloured with distress ink 

The backing paper I stamped with the word stamp & 'distressed' with different coloured distress inks.

I cut the hearts from the double sided paper provided, using both sides of the paper & then stamped them with gold ink with the heart stamp

Mounted the silver embellishment onto the coloured strip ..

At the bottom left I added another matted element with 3 brown pearls.

Thank you scrapbookcafe2 for my bits :-)