Whimsical Wednesdays "On The Edge" Challenge

Hello everyone! It's time for a new Whimsical Wednesdays challenge. This week the challenge is to create any project or card and include a border on it. This weeks challenge is being sponsored by CropStop. They are generously giving one lucky winner a NEW EK Success Edge Punch called Doily Petals. It's a new punch designed to create flowers. Here is a picture of it. How cool does that look!

For my card I tried to venture out of my norm. If you visit regularly, you know that I usually do cutesy projects. This time I did a shabby chic card. I assembled the base of my card by layering several colors and a band in the middle that I cut with pinking sheers...at least that's what I call them. I inked all the edges with distress ink and sewed around the edges with my sewing machine. On the side I added a border strip that was cut using my Imagine and the Yummy cartridge. To save you some hassle, I will tell you that it was cut at .9 inches. That was the size that finally fit my card perfectly. I added some ribbon over the side edge and added a bow. The center mat was cut from the Lacey Circles Nestability Die and I stamped the sentiment which is from Whimsical Designs With Love stamp set. If you are looking for some fun stamps for Valentines Day, I highly recommend this set! To finish I added prima flowers with brad centers. I will tell you a tip that I learned while making this card: I only had bright pink flowers...NOT the right color for this card. So I experimented and ended up coloring over them with my Sand colored PrismaColor Marker...And it created this beautiful rose color! Just something to keep in mind if your ever in need to change the color of an embellishment.
I hope you all liked my card and will play along this week. Please don't forget to check out what the rest of the amazing Design Team had created. Have a great day!