Just Because

Hello my crafty friends!  This card is definitely one of my favourites from the Vintage Lace samples that I made.  I love the way that these dies look when concertina folded.  I chose a soft aqua patterned paper as a background for this card.  I cut a circle from dark aqua card as a background for my focal element. To create the concertina piece, I cut two of the Vintage Lace Motifs and scored down the centre of each tip of the lace die and also scored down the between each section in the design.  I cut to the centre and folded all the sections back and forth.  I did this to both pieces then glued them together to form the concertina folded circle.  I stamped my sentiment on milk coloured card and cut it out using the Vintage Lace accent piece.  A bit of Bundled Sage distress ink was lightly applied while still in the die as an accent.  I cut one more of the same die in the dark aqua card and offset the two pieces.  I added them to the top of my concertina circle, completing the focal element.  I cut a thin strip of the dark aqua card and used one of the edgeability inserts to cut the design out of it to use as a border below my focal element.  I glued a thin piece of milk card to the back of the border to show through the insert cut out.  I added a piece of the new teardrop lace in cream below the border.  I tied a double bow using the cream silky crush ribbon and added it to the left side of the border.  I made a flower using Sam Poole's flower stamp from the Button Floral stamp set (there is a tutorial for this flower on the Creative Expressions website under workshops).  Once finished, I inserted my pokey tool in the bottom of it and dipped the entire flower in to a pan of melted clear ultra thick embossing powder to coat it and turn it into a porcelain flower.  If you use your heat tool after dipping it, you can melt away the excess blobs that form, just be sure to hold it over your pan or a craft sheet as the drips are still very hot.  I added my flower to the centre of my bow using glue dots and added two crystal stick pins.  I cut two corners out of milk card from the Vintage Lace Accent set and added them in opposite corners with a single pearl accent.  To complete the card, I added a few sprays of pearl swirls and pierced the edge of the card.  I hope you like it! 

As for tomorrow's post, I thought that I would show you a sneak peek of the POTD shows that I am doing beginning on Wednesday evening on Ideal World at 9pm.  Just to ease you in a bit, I am giving you advance notice that it is Christmas.  I know that is hard for some of you to think about this early on in the year, but it will be here before you know it!  I hope you will pop back by tomorrow and see what is in store.  All for now, Sue x