Pinkfresh Studio Folklore Die

This card is one of those projects that kind of evolved and changed as it went along because things just weren't quite working the way I planned.

I started out by wanting to do something a little different for Kathy Rac's coloring challenge.  I've been wanting to use this Folklore Die from Pinkfresh Studio for a while.  It's so pretty and detailed, so I thought it would be fun to color it.  To do so, I dry embossed it on a piece of cardstock, and then used those embossing lines as my coloring lines.

Because the spaces are relatively small, instead of using my normal three colors for shading, I just used two.  I colored the flowers and greens, and then I colored the background black. 

The black coloring wasn't looking as crisp as I wanted it to, so I decided to die cut a panel of black cardstock, and inlaid those background pieces into my outline die. 

This worked OK, but because of all the detail in the die, and the fact that I wasn't inlaying the entire thing, I couldn't adhere the die/pieces the way I normally did, and as a result things weren't sticking as well as I wanted them to.

What to do?  I decided to spread Nuvo Glimmer Paste over the entire piece.  Once the paste dried, everything was stuck firmly in place, and I also got some SERIOUS sparkle.

I added a simple sentiment to finish things off.

This is definitely not the card that I set out to make, but I think I like it.  What do you think?