I thought for a while about how to adhere the seed paper flowers to the card. I do not usually use brads on my cards and if I do, I NEVER let the backs show. Which is, incidentally, why I had not glued down the patterned paper yet. I learned the hard way many times that it is best to wait until the card is almost finished to glue the background piece to the actual card, that way you can use that piece to hide brad backs, or ribbon ends or whatever. Anyhoo, I had not originally planned to use brads on the cards. But I decided that it might be more 'user friendly' for the card recipients if they could just undo the brads and take the flowers off as opposed to feeling like they are literally ripping apart this gorgeous handmade creation. So, I dug through my stash and pulled out a variety of brads in coordinating colors. (I added some brad options available in the store here to the supply list for those of you who would prefer that option.)
Then I ... everyone say it with me - inked the edges. Liberally and with two tones of ink. I used a lighter brown and the same brown as before, in no particular order. Sometimes light brown was on white, sometimes on yellow. I just wanted more variety and visual interest.
NOTE: along with thinking long and hard about how to adhere the flowers, I contemplated what sorts of altering would work for the seed paper. In the end I decided that stamping and all manner of physical distortion was probably fine. Yes, punching and cutting and distressing might break some individual seeds, but in the end the bulk of the paper remains intact. However, I think it might be ill-advised to use glimmer mist on the seed papers. They are, after all, designed to biodegrade in moist soil and to allow the seeds to germinate. I didn't try it, so I can't really say, but I didnt want to chance it. Normally, instead of all this labor intensive inking I would have glimmer misted. Although, you know? I probably would have inked after the glimmer mist anyway. yep I am an inking addict.
