I've sponged colour on from various inkpads, added a strip of patterned paper down the side (from the fantastic K&Co Classic Boxed set)and stamped the border over this. Then I cut away around the diamond shapes and put the exact same image on the inside of the card, just colouring the rose slightly differently. I added some different paper down the side and used one of the fabulous quotes.
When opening it looks like this:
I can see I'm going to use this plate a lot, not just for the fabulous collages, but I also love those swirly fonts and that long border stamp, which reminds me of wrought iron fencing. It doesn't matter if you use the whole design or just part of it, it always seems to work!I have to say you're lucky to see any photos at all as I'd parcelled the samples up all ready to go in tomorrow's post when I realised I'd forgotten to take any pics! The air turned a decided shade of blue - you'd understand if you could see how I do my parcels - I keep Wilkos in brown parcel tape! Also I never have a box to fit, so make them from various ones put together and if you try to undo them they just fall apart! However I braved it and managed to salvage the box without too much bad language!
Enjoy!
Helen