En Papillote Arts: Can You See It??

For the Hero Arts October 2011B Challenge, I wanted to create a card using a material I haven't tried before, acetate. (I may have used it on a window card once.) My mojo has been on vacation for a while, so I decided to start off slowly. I am also NOT a student of the CAS school of cardmaking. I love it, but my right-brained self has to keep adding more and more. Hard for me to "stop and walk away!"

I took the acetate sheet, folded it in half, and used an embossing folder of sheet music on the "front" of the card base. OK, I'm happy with that. I search my new stash of holiday stamps from Hero Arts and find a beautiful ornament stamp that screamed to be wet embossed. Out came the ultra fine powder in black - nice and shiny like patent leather!

I now have sheet music and an ornament. What am I going to use to bring it all together? I am void of color. Do I want color? I dive into my stash of scraps and find my favorite black and white gingham cardstock. I need a plan. Ah ha - these sketches!

I choose the sketch in the upper right. But wait - my acetate card is in portrait, not landscape. OK, I can deal with that. A plan is coming together! My mojo is home!! I take my piece of gingham and run it through my CB with the oval scalloped Spellbinders Nestie. It needs something to stand out. I take black soot distress ink and rub the edges of the oval.

I search my ribbon stash for the piece behind the oval. I find a gorgeous plaid silk ribbon I have been saving for a time like this. I cut, snip and put in place. NOPE! NOW the perfectionist in me wants to come out? Really? I still need to bring this card together. I look through every piece of Christmas paper I have. Nothing works! And THEN I spot my trusty friend - that cute little piece of scrap sheet music that takes me to my comfort zone again. It gets a rub of the black soot ink. I have conquered my fear of the CAS card!

I continue on to complete my card with a simple sentiment that seems to express how I'm feeling right at this moment - JOY!! "Stop and walk away!" It needs nothing else. Not a pearl, no bling, no embellishment but a simple silver ribbon on the neck of the ornament. Ha - I did get a spritz of Glimmer Mist onto the oval though! I adhered the piece of music to the back of the front of the card and put the oval on the front to hide the glue. Here is my finished product!!