Here's the card I made for my dear Mother-in-law -- hope she likes it!
The card front is dry embossed with a Quickutz ef called Frame. I embossed another frame, cut out the center oval and pop-dotted it to the cardfront. The flower was made with mulberry paper. I stacked 10 small squares of pink mulberry, made a stitch through the center with some thread and then die cut the stack using a Blossom Nestie. I did this twice, once using the 2nd smallest Blossom die, and once using the 3rd. After the stack was die cut, I clipped through the stack of flowers at intervals to create separate petals. Then the smaller flower stack was added to the top of the larger flower stack with a glue dot. A quick spritz of water, some fluffing of the layers with my fingers and the flower was done. Two sets of leaves were cut from green mulberry paper using a Sizzix die called Leaves.
After glueing the flower and leaf fronds to the oval, I realized that I had too much white space showing below the flower. In desperation I took a square of scrap paper, punched the eyelet lace corner with a MS punch, traced & then cut a partial oval frame shape; the fancy teardrop shape resulted. A scrap of green mulberry was added to the back to show off the punch detailing. I was able to slip this panel underneath the flower and hide where it connected with the petals. Whew, all that work to cover up a misplaced flower! The small oval sentiment was added to balance out the the design.
As an aside, the flower was super fun to do and took no time at all to make. And it was a great way to use up mulberry paper that I've had in my stash for years.
Thanks for looking!
Date: Friday, April 15, 2011 GMT Views: 719
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