Stamp Simply -altered store bought cards

**this is my second post today. If you are looking for my Raspberry Suite/Mojo card, you can click here**

Hi everyone. It's time for another Stamp Simply challenge! This week, Sharon has challenged us to Alter a Store Bought card. This WAS a challenge for me, not from difficulty, but FINDING a store bought card in my stash of last year's cards! Just about ALL of my friends and family sent family picture cards for Christmas -LOL! I did find one sent by Bill's Aunt that had a lovely poinsettia picture on it, so I went with that.

Here's what I did. I trimmed out the poinsettia image, layered it on gold cardstock then burgundy then added pearls to each poinsettia. I shamelessly cased Julee's design , and centered it in the middle of an embossed rectangle. I added some ribbon to the top and some gold pearls to the bottom. Very easy and very elegant.

For the inside, I trimmed a strip of the card border and added it to the bottom. Right about now, I wish I took a picture of the card I altered BEFORE I cut it all up -LOL!

If you play along, be sure to use keyword SSNOTIME117 when you upload. Be sure to stop by the team's blogs to see all their altered cards!

Sharon, herself
Jennifer (has the week off)
Janine
Julie (has the week off)
AJ (posting late)
Tammy
Deb
Barbara
Jenny
Barb

Please bear with us all as we each upload and link on Thursday night. Everyone should be up and set by Friday morning.

Here is a close up picture.

Thanks for stopping by!