Flower Silhouette - Scraps on my Table 1

"Pure herring oil is the port wine of English cats."
                                                     ------------Honore de Balzac


Hi, Friends.....

I bet I'm not the only one who has been trying to clean up their craft table lately!  Am I right?  I have a myriad of scraps and snippets, bits and pieces of things that I cannot bear to toss......so I have determined to use a bunch of them this coming year -- starting now! 

I found this flower silhouette in my heap the other day. (Actually it was upright in a little plastic box.....I absolutely refuse to confirm or to deny whether I have a true "heap" on the other side of my craft mat!)  It was a failed Perfect Pearls experiment that I had heat-embossed with sparkly powder.  I fussy cut around the image to make it usable, at last.  

The tags, from a cute but neglected little K&Co. tag-pad were falling off the edge of my table onto the couch beside were also nearby.  Although I try to keep these handy, I hardly ever can find them use them.  Happily, the colors seem to be right for my image.  I stamped the tag on the left with an Oriental character background from the MFP - Works of Art set, using Simon Says Stamp ink in Khaki.

The navy background was another failed Perfect Pearls attempt.  The image never looked that great, so I wiped off the PP with a synthetic cotton ball....which only served to smudge it!  But I actually kind of liked the gentle, shimmery gold aura it left.  With the corner-punching, I think it looks nice behind the tags.  

Here's an angled shot to show the shimmer and shine.

I wrapped some thrift store metallic gold yarn around the card and mounted the whole thing on a premade DCWV shiny, glittery gold card base.  

As you see, I scored big on using bits and pieces from my heap (figure of speech only, still neither confirming nor denying!)  on this card (YAY!!) and I think it actually turned out kind of pretty.  Let me know what you think, too!!! 

<3
Janis

Thank you for the honor of entering this card in the following challenges:
1. MFP Speedy Fox and Friends Challenge #242 - Round those Corners 
2. Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge #11 - Anything Goes  
3. Hiding in my Craft Room Challenge #180 - Freestyle
4. DL.Art December Linky Challenge - Anything Goes
5. Pixie's Snippets Playground Weeks 156-157