LIM 113 - Lime and Black

First of all let me say I was tickled pink that my big yellow flower card was selected as one of the ShowCASed cards for week 112.  Thank You so much!

On Saturday morning when I saw this week's challenge Lime & Black I really had NO idea what I would do. In fact, I wasn't even sure I would be able to make a card.  Friday night while I was making some shrimp gumbo for dinner, I burned the palm of my left hand.  I have a flat top (ceramic) stove and when the burner is turned on it glows red...when it's turned off, you don't see the red of the hot burner...although there is a little red light on the back of the stove to indicate that there is still a hot burner.  I'd used one of the burners on the front...turned it off...then promptly forgot that I just turned it off and put the palm of my hand down to balance myself to reach the cabinet over the stove to get something....OUCH!  I ended up having to go to the emergency room.  I had second degree burns on all five fingers and the palm of my hand under my index finger.  I immediately plunged my hand into cold water, and kept it in a bag of water until I got to the emergency room.  The doctors told me that I'd done the best thing possible by putting my hand in cold water.  They put some ointment on it to try to deaden the pain, but it didn't work very quickly!  I've had my hand bandaged for a couple of days now, and have put the ointment on twice a day as directed...and today when I removed the bandage, you can still see the burns...but they aren't nearly as bad as they were Friday night!   Hardly any swelling at all!

So...now that I have the use of all my fingers again...I made a few cards for the challenge.  I can't say that I'm delighted with all of them...in fact, a couple of them I made while my hand was bandaged yesterday...all I can say is...it was really interesting how I had to maneuver my bandaged hand to make a card!  Okay...I'll move along with my cards...

I made this card today and I think it is probably my favorite.  It's super simple.  I embossed the front of the card base, then popped the stamped layer on top.  I stamped the leaves in a lime green and added three tiny white flowers.  The sentiment is from Sweet n Sassy is stamped in black, and I added a black and white gingham ribbon across the bottom. I also added a dot of liquid pearls to the center of each of the little flowers.  I rounded the corners of the panel, and two of the corners of the card with a corner chomper.

I also made this card today.  I cut a white panel slightly smaller than the card base and embossed it with an embossing folder.  I added a lime green strip that was punched with a MS punch and put two small strips of black across the top of the green strip.  I added tiny black pearls to the scallops across the bottom.  The sentiment and flower are from PTI and are stamped in black.  The flower was an afterthought...the card just looked so plain without it.  I stamped the flower on a piece of white then cut it out and stuck it behind the green strip. I also rounded the corners with the corner chomper.

I made this card yesterday when my had was all bandaged up...and I decided this morning that I just didn't like it at all...too much black!  I made a lime green card base, and cut the butterfly (MB) from the same paper.  I cut a black panel and added tiny strips of black/white stripe paper to each edge.  The sentiment was embossed in white.  

This card was also made yesterday when my had was bandaged up.....and it is a TOTAL flop!  I probably shouldn't have posted it, but it is what it is.....

I used some of my glimmer mists and sprayed a piece of white card stock, then added a black border.  The banner is cut with a Simon Says die, and the sentiment is also SS (I think).  I cut the die from both  black and white card stock, and added some pop dots for dimension.  Rounded the corners with the corner chomper. 

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