To Flourish.....

.... to grow well, luxuriant, thrive, dramatic or stylish movement, as of waving or brandishing, an embellishment or ornamentation: a signature with a distinctive flourish, that's the challenge at LIM#71 this week.  I thought initially a black and white theme for my card, but, after a trip down the garden on this beatiful hot summers day that magically happened today, to cut some of the first sweet peas the colours were so lovely I was inspired instead to make a colourful summery card.  I used a memory box die to cut the  flourish heart and laid it on the card at various angles within the piece of paper from which it was cut - this then acted as a sort of mask/template and I simply used cats eye ink pads to ink over the heart a sort of negative flourish effect was produced which I think is quite luxurious and stylish and very pretty...hope you like it too. x