Purple Thistle

Hello everyone, I hope you are all doing well and staying warm.    I realize some of you live in parts of the world where it's always warm, lucky you !    Here it's pretty cold at minus 13 Celsius but at least the wind has calmed down.

The new Rose & Thistle set from Chocolate Baroque includes a variety of designs to work with and for this card I used the pretty Thistle.   It reminds me of Scotland & how much I've enjoyed my trips over there with my husband visiting with his wonderful family.    

I stamped the Thistle on smooth white cardstock with black Stazon ink and coloured with my Prisma Pencils.   I used a Spellbinder S5-015 die cut behind the Thistle.  I blended Shaded Lilac Distress Ink around the image.  The matting is deep purple (looks dark in the photo).

To create the background I started with a piece of  Basic Grey paper with a faint pattern  & over-stamped the Flower Sprig with Dusty Concord Distress Ink around the outside edges.  I used a white Prisma Pencil for a little highlighting.   I added two rows of rhinestone borders, but the light bouncing off them doesn't show how pretty they are (clear & mauve).

The beautiful scripted quote is from Chocolate Baroque's Fresh Blooms set (another favorite) stamped with Black Versafine ink.

Thanks for your visit and have a great day !
Shirley