Layers of Beauty, Note Card, Stampin' Up! The Good, The Bad and the Ugly!

Hello and welcome to my blog. Today I have a mess to share with you. I call cards like this "The Good, the Bad and the Ugly" because I share them all with you.  (lucky you!  LOL). Please read on to see what happened.

The base of my card is a folded half-sheet of Basic White card stock. It opens on the bottom and the fold is on the top.

I cut a 4" x 5-1/4" piece of Basic White card stock and textured it using the "Damask Designs" embossing folder.  I glued it to the front of the card.

I needed a note card so I stamped the words from the "Simply Said" set using black Memento ink on Basic White card stock. I cut them out using the 4th circle in the "Stylish Shapes" die set and I set it aside.

Next I stamped the floral image from the "Layers of Beauty" bundle using black Memento ink in Basic White card stock.  What's fun about this bundle is it has stencils.  The stencils are numbered so you can use them in order and get the perfect shading and blending. I used my blending brushes for this. The colors I used are Bubble Bath, Petunia Pop and Berry Burst for stencils 1-3. And for the greenery I used Old Olive on both stencils 4 and 5.  I cut the piece out using the matching die. But before I cut the piece I put it back in my Stamparatus/MISTI to stamp it again to darken the lines.  I often use that to stamp images and words. Sometimes my ink pads aren't always moist enough and I have to stamp the image several times to get a nice dark and crisp image.  Anyway, I put the card stock back on the Stamparatus/MISTI and stamped over the flowers again. I really was hoping for some nice dark sharp lines.  I had put the piece in with the top being the bottom and I stamped. I ruined all of that stenciling.  UGH.  SO I though, maybe if I texture it using the "Damask Design" embossing folder it won't look so bad.  It didn't help.  I cut the piece out anyway and went ahead with the card to show you that I often make mistakes but most of the time you never see them.  So today's ugly card is here for the world to see!  I'll probably send it to my sister, she might not even notice all the lines on it!  LOL

Thank you SO very much for sticking with me on this one!
Wanda