Forever Young!

“Youth is happy because it has the ability to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty  never grows old”.
Download the sentiment and several other sentiments here

Don’t we all see beauty in the things we create? Therefore, creating will keep us young.

This is my creation for today. I bought a distressing tool recently and  tattered the edges of some of the elements on the card, as well as distressing using ink.

The card was 5 3/4 inches cream. I used an A4 sheet and from the remaining card, cut a 2 1/2 inch square.  I used the sentiment quoted in the beginning of the post and recoloured it to a dark olive, then printed it onto parchment in the top left hand corner and cut it to a 2  3/8 inch square. With the remaining parchment, I cut a 5 1/2 inch square which was distressed with the tool and then ink distressed with olive green ink. I also cut out two parchment squares using spellbinders fleur de lys dies but one has been almost completely covered by the decoration. These were also distressed  with the olive green ink. Also from the parchment I cut several sprigs of leaves and inked them with the same olive green ink. The Sentiment square and the small cream square were distressed with the tool and inked. The small squares were layered with foam tape. The two fleur de lys squares were offset and the sentiment block placed in the middle. The bow was three loops tied together, and glued with a hot glue gun. The metallic daisy was glued over the top and the sprigs arranged under the bow. I used a collection of medium and small double layered daisies ( tutorial here) and some tiny single layered flowers. Around the edge of the sentiment square I used some wired acrylic drop sprays I bought from Wild Orchid crafts over a year ago and have been wondering what to do with ever since!

You can download the sentiment and several more here