Another Chalked Vase

Here's another card using the chalked vase technique.  The center of this frame is cut out so you can see through to the flowers on the inside of the card - which you see more clearly when you open it (though the scan of the inside doesn't show the hole in the front very well, since you see the scanner lid through the hole).

 

The outside frame is chalked. The silver sentiments are outline-type stickers. The flowers are paper flowers from two sources (a set of Floral Embellishments that I got from Paper Wishes and a bottle of white flowers from the wedding section of Michaels craft store). These are just layered and held together with brads.

Okay, I'll fess up.  The front of this card turned out differently than I had planned.  A major "oops" turned into a blessing in disguise :).  Just as I was finishing the chalking, the paper tore, badly!  That large hole in the center just plain weakened the paper quite a bit.  So, here I'd put all this work into the card, had the vase and flowers all done, and had just finished the chalking on the front and it TORE in two places - one completely through the edge!!!!  I tried to glue the edges of the tears and fix it, but it was still pretty visible. So, I got the idea of gluing the white to it.  The base card was one I got from paper wishes and I had another white card that was identical.  I cut the front of the white down and glued it to the front of the blue.  I needed to also add white to the inside, but didn't want to cut up another card so decided to use the inside page of the white -- only now I didn't have the hole cut out.  Rather than taking a chance of another problem by using an exacto knife on it, I used a scalloped spellbinders die that was a bit larger than the hole - giving me a nice scalloped frame on the inside!