What You Do

 Morning all!  I can barely look at this card without remembering the hours and hours I spent looking for my Venetian Motif die that went missing after the first use!  You see, I had wanted to use it twice on this card, but it decided to play hide and seek with me so I ended up changing the game plan and actually really liking how it came out.  It turns out the die, which still had a bit of sticky tape on it (I get them sent to me attached to a piece of copy paper with the stickiest tape ever!) was stuck between two rolls of seam binding that were on my desk at the time!  It only took me three times sorting through my waste bin because I was certain I had thrown it away by accident.  So this card was a sort of happy accident as it turned out.  I started with a piece of background paper I had (I'd cut it for something else then changed my mind).  I cut two of the Asian borders and glued them facing each other on the side of my card.  I ran a piece of sky blue seam binding down the centre and added a messy bow to the bottom.  I decided to cut one of the smaller dies from the Venetian Motifs for the centre of my bow, kinda cute isn't it!  I added a flatback pearl to the centre and two stick pins.  Now for the focal element.  I started with a large labels 28 in pale blue and a Venetian Motif in milk.  I cut the motif in half and glued it to the top and bottom of the labels 28, clipping the curly edges over.  next I cut an Asian Motif in milk card.  It was far too big so I performed a bit of surgery on it and brought the size down.  I nipped each one of the corners off at the second scallop.  Next I stamped my sentiment and cut it out with Labels 27 turned to an "X" shape.  I then glued my Asian bits to each of the corners so they were peeking out from behind my sentiment.  I added a flatback pearl to the centres of each of the pieces.  I also inked my sentiment with weathered wood distress ink while it was in the die and used a bit of mounting foam to raise it up.  I finished the card with a few pearls in the two right hand corners and pierced the edges.  I was really pleased with it when it was all said and done although I didn't end up finding that die until late the next day!  All for now, Sue x