A Girlie Swirlie Card!

Hi guys!  The weekend has come around fast hasn't it!  Not everything has gone to plan as I had hoped.  I have managed to get most things caught up, but I still need to do the big Blog Candy drawing which I will have to push back to Monday.  I had hoped to get it done and posted yesterday, but there just weren't enough hours in the day.  I promise it will be sorted by Monday afternoon sometime. Now for today's card, a real frilly one to be sure (right up my street!), the only thing missing is a ginormous bow! LOL  Even I couldn't find a place to put one!  I started with some dotty background paper from my stash (My Mind's Eye, I think?)  I used the Decorative Labels Eight to cut an aperture in the centre.  I stamped my sentiment on milk coloured card, then place the same label shape and the next size smaller die over my sentiment, centring them both around it.  I taped them into place, then placed the tan mat over them and the pink embossing plate and ran them through the GC machine to emboss the pattern without cutting it.  I inked the area showing through the dies with Tattered rose distress ink.  I added 3D mounting foam to my background piece and placed it over the sentiment, lining it up with the aperture area.   Next I cut a small border using a strip of decorative script paper and placing one of the edgeability inserts in the middle of it.  The insert cut out the small heart pattern only.  I placed a piece of matching paper behind the hearts and then used a milk coloured mat behind the border.  I taped it into place along the left side of my card.  I wrapped a piece of cream coloured scalloped lace around the bottom of the card.  Using the Spiral Flower three, I cut three flowers from two shades of felt (btw, Sam Poole carries the nicest felt in her shop online, cuts like a dream!)  I rolled the flowers and secured them with Cosmic Shimmer dries clear glue, then glued them into place in the corner of my card.  I added pearls to the centres of each of the flowers.  Out of both script paper and milk card, I cut several of the swirl from the Jewelled Flowers and Flourish set to use as accents around my flowers and in the opposite corner of the aperture.  I cut a few leaves from the Bitty Blossom set to add around the flowers too.  I pierced the edges which I double matted in milk card to give it a nice framed look. Finished dimensions 7 1/2" x 8 1/2" in size. (I remembered to photograph this next batch of cards with rulers by the side so I would know!) I do have these dies on my shows on Sunday so it is sort of like a sneak peek (even though I made this one for the last shows I did!)  I have some fun demos planned so I hope you can tune in to Create and Craft TV on Sunday at noon for two hours and again at 5pm!  All for now, Sue x