House of Cards

House of Cards is having a Holiday Blog Hop Challenge.

Here is the beautiful inspiration photo:

 

   I was first struck by how elegant the inspiration was. 

Looking more closely, the plate rim really caught my eye.

I really wanted to make an elegant card and pretty quickly came up with a few ideas.  I did a little stamping;  spent a few days thinking about my idea and this morning sat down to put it together.

Let me tell you, it was Hideous, with a capital H.  The hideousness of it made me laugh out loud.  I didn't take a picture of it but even if I had I would have been too embarrassed to show it.

Here is what I changed it to:

My original actually had a crystal and pearls hanging from the center where the lamp is.  Ugh.

 

I found some old Magenta Style brand stickers in my stash that were perfect.

A quick silver stamped sentiment from SU.

 In the end I went back and added the touches of red and green even though they were not in the inspiration.  It just seemed a little too stark to me.

Thanks for Visiting,
Ang