Cream And Aqua Card

, Morning all!  A simple cream and deep aqua card for today's post.  The background was embossed with the Valor embossibility folder, utilising the technique to lengthen my background seamlessly. I wrapped a piece of aqua silky crush ribbon around the left edge and taped the ends to the back of the card.  No bow today (although it easily could have been added), I decided to use a piece of natural twine to tie around my ribbon at the bottom for a simpler look.  I cut a smaller piece, about 4" x 4" and pierced the edge as a frame for another piece of milk coloured card.  I mounted them in a diamond orientation.  Using dark aqua card, I cut a frame using two sizes of the labels 24 dies.  Using an open So Trendy embossibility folder, I placed the frame on top while still in the die.  Leaving the folder open, I placed my tan mat on top and added a few pieces of card as a shim and then the raspberry plate, I ran it through the machine to emboss my frame.  I inked it with a bit of distress ink (forest moss, I think) to bring out the embossing.  I added some matching pearl Nestabling to frame it.  I stamped my sentiment and inked the edges lightly with Broken China distress ink and mounted it behind my frame using some foam pieces.  I added my frame to the centre of my card, but offset in a square orientation this time.  One Spiral flower 3 was rolled and added to the top corner as an accent and the entire edge of the back matting was pierced to complete the card.  All for now, Sue x