Floral Tattoo

It's been a while, I've made a few cards. sewing things and dabbled in this and that, but didn't think about taking photo's of most of them!  Anyhooo, I made this last year using one of Tim Holtz stamps, Floral Tattoo, Distress Inks, an EK Success punch, wooden embellishments, embossing powder and American seam binding. 

Firstly, I made a background colour of pink.  Stamped in the corners with a clear ink, sprinkled on clear embossing powder and heated.  Then added a little brown and Tumbled Glass.  I used this too to colour the ribbon and one of the wooden embellishments.  One of these I left plain, while the other I coloured pink.  The two coloured shapes looked like they could do with a bit of bling, so I used Inkssentials watermark ink on them, sprinkled over embossing powder and glitter - nicely blingy.

The lace border is a punch, and inked with pink and brown.  The ribbon runs underneath it to help the border stand out a bit.  

I used another of Tim Holtz stamps for the message.  This was stamped onto white card and cut out using a Spellbinder die.  While the die was still in place a inked the inside a little so it had a white border.  How did I achieve the red heart?  I inked just that part of the stamp in red ink and the rest in brown.  Then I used a Versamark pen and drew over just the heart and sprinkled it with clear embossing powder.  Finally, drawing over the word "magic" with a Stickles glue.