Grid Background Die

Hi Everyone!

I hope you're having a great week so far.  I think everybody enjoys springtime and this card today has some of my favorite elements on it.  I adore daisies, and trellis designs, and blue, and yellow... with white, of course, and...and...and.

So, I hope you enjoy this card.  I got the die cut from my favorite stamping store here in the area and it has so much potential.  I snipped it in half for the background on this card ... and then added my die cut daisies and the leaf flourish.  

I wanted to be able to tell you the manufacturer and details about this lattice die but I've discarded the wrapper since I keep my dies in a scrapbook with magnetic sheets.  I'll try to find out the details and edit the blog when I have the information... sorry.  The edge die is from Spellbinders A2 Borderabilities, the daisies are by My Favorite Thing, and the leaf flourish is Spellbinders Floral Flourishes.  I've used my SU cardstock... midnight muse, daffodil delight, garden green and whisper white.  The little centers were run through the big shot using the dotted swiss embossing folder and then punched out.

This was a contender for my crazy card club too... but it got a little labor intensive... and, when you need to make 15, well, you can figure the rest.

Thanks for stopping by... stay tuned for the CCC (crazy card club) winner!!!

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Lynda's birthday

Hi Friends... and happy Friday to you all

Today I want to share the card that I made for our daughter Lynda for her birthday.  I'm really happy with the way it turned out but I needed to tweak it a bit to make it do what I wanted.   I used Spellbinders Resplendent Rectangles.  The largest of the dies in this set is 5 x 7 and that is the cover on this card.  But it's a kind of 'false front'.  

If you look closely at the following picture, you'll see that that the card has a double front.  I affixed the folded card to the false front to achieve this. Sometimes when things just don't want to cooperate, you make do with another method and that's what went on here. After I figured out the construction, I chose some pretty lavender Copics to color the image.  The stamp set is called Passion Flower from Flourishes.  The design artist is one of my favorites, Marcella Hawley.   

The image is stamped on the second of this spellbinders' set and I sponged the background while the paper was still in the die. I stamped the flowers off twice so I could cut out the two large blossoms and pop them up on the card. Last, I added the rhinestones from my SU pack.

Lynda loved this card and I hope you do too.  

Thanks for the visit... and come back soon

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