I made this card for this week's Ways To Use It Challenge. Toni is our hostess and she has chosen a wonderful theme of "Getting Edgy."
You have to look closely at this card to see that the bottom layer of the front is actually acetate. There is coordinating DSP on the inside of the card that shows through the acetate layer when the card is closed, but I could not get a good photo of this. The front border is die cut, then the flowers are popped up with the centers still attached to the card. Then I did cut the same border from the purple polka dot paper and I carefully snipped all the flower centers to remove the flowers from the DSP. I actually did this 3 times so I could layer up the flowers. This took quite a bit of time to do. Then, I painstakingly added glue to the flowers in strategic areas and applied the purple flowers over the popped up flowers on the card base. There is an outer edge to each flower, then the flower centers pop up. Getting the purple flowers attached to this tiny narrow edge took some concentration, but it was worth it. It is so hard to see all of this in the photo, but you can really see it in real life. Add glue with a 2-way glue pen to the little flowers and sprinkled glitter on top of them for some added sparkle and shine. The gems appear blue in this photo, but they are actually a perfect match to the paper in real life. This was a challenging card for me to make and I enjoyed every minute of it.
I am also entering this card in the Alphabet challenge for the letter V for violet posies.
Thanks for looking today! ~Karen.
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Sun, Aug 18, 2019 @ 6:48 AM
Wow wow wow!!! Loving those flowers!! The edging you made on this makes it so special!! Lovely font and sentiment!!
------------------------------ Jan 'Being confident of this very thing, that he which hath begun a good work in you will perform it until the day of Jesus Christ'. Philippians 1:6
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Thu, Sep 05, 2019 @ 9:31 PM
Absolutely stunning Karen. TFS Happy day
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