Waltzingmouse Flower Show CASE Competition....a card CASE'd from Helen Berry Design

Hello Everyone,
I seem to have found some MOJO to create this week.  Yeah!!! I have been sadly lacking in the ability to create ANYTHING for over a week now and then the last two days I am whipping out cards in no time at all....go figure.  I think the events in Boston and Texas and in my own life do get me down sometimes and it is hard for me to create....but I also know that it is our incredible human spirits and our families and friends that keep us keeping on!  My heart goes out to anyone that is in pain from difficult circumstances in their lives!  Blessings to you ALL!

Tonight I put together a card for the Waltzingmouse Flower Show CASE competition:

I hope you will got to the Waltzingmouse site and join in all the fun!  Thanks Claire and designers for wonderful inspiration and a fun competition to participate in!  I want to just case every single incredible card that the designers came up with....but for today I chose to case this card by Helen Berry: HERE.  Here is a photo:

  I specifically wanted to play with Folk Art Labels No. 25.  A small $6.10 stamp set that is full of charm!  Here is what it looks like (courtesy of the Waltzingmouse Stamps Site: HERE.)

  I was intrigued by the small stamp on the right that is almost pine cone shaped.  I just fell in love with that little stamp and wanted to play around with making a background with it.  Here is what I came up with:

 I liked the way Helen stamped her background.  She made her card multi-colored and broke her background up into thirds visually. However, after a few minutes playing on scrap paper I gave up on this idea and ended up just adding some darker pink centers to the lower third of the card and the additional mats to balance the card.  I wanted to only use stamps from this one set to make my card so my choices were a little more limited.  I think I may try to CASE this card again though because the tri-color background was what I originally set out to CASE as I was so intrigued by the way my eye moved through the card.  The Rule of Thirds is so powerful!!! I would do well to remember that more often! LOL!

Anyway thanks for taking a look at my card.  And thanks to Helen (and all of the designers) again for the inspiration and to Claire and the Waltzingmouse family for their wonderful products that I so enjoy playing with!
:) Jill