Woven Dahlia Thank You

Morning everyone!  I know that it is Sunday morning, but since I will be at sea when this post goes live, I am going to have to skip the comment game drawing  this week and do double duty next Sunday. I hope you'll understand and let me slide on this until then!   For today's card, I would like to show you  a fun card that showcases several different dies.  I started by cutting the two smallest dies in the Grand Dahlia set and making a frame.  I cut two exactly alike out of light blue card.  I wove the dies together so that every other pointed section went either over the top or under the other die.  Once finished, they are hooked together and will quite easily stay there.  I put some small pieces of mounting foam on the back and attached it to my background which I did in three diagonal pieces.  Top and bottom corner were black and white houndstooth paper and the centre strip was an embossed patterned black card.  Next I cut a Spectacular Spin to fit inside my woven frame.  On top of that I added a Moroccan motif in black.  I stamped my sentiment and cut it out with the smaller Moroccan accent piece and inked the centre with Broken China distress ink to balance my blue frame.  I wrapped a piece of black silky crush ribbon around the bottom of the card and added a double bow with a fancy button and pearl stick pins as accents. I added some rhinestone swirls in the corner opposite my bow for balance.   I finished off my card with Cosmic Shimmer pearl PVA glue dots.  The finished size of this card is 6" x 8 1/2" .  Did you notice that I slipped in some of my beloved houndstooth? LOL  All for now, Sue x