Best Wishes

Hello my crafty friends!  Are we all recovered from our festive past few days!  I hope we can get back to some serious crafting now!  Today's card is a really easy one to make.  I started with a page from my trusty thrift store dictionary to use as my background (oh and by the way, hard back books are not recycled like paperbacks,  I have just learned, so if you can use them to upcycle into a fun project, no guilt about the whole book thing!)  I distressed the edges with Black Soot.  I wanted to add an embossed panel so I used the Garden Lattice embossibility for this.  I added a thin mat of red for a pop of colour behind it.  Using the Cherry blossoms die, I added some twigs going across the card and cut some small red flowers for them.  I added 3mm black pearls to the centres of all the flowers.  Next I stamped the tag from the justrite french Frills set.  I coloured it with Fired Brick distress ink.  I stamped my sentiment in the centre in black.  I wanted this to be a tad smaller than the die so I cut it by hand as it is a very simple shape.  Out of black card, I cut the matching tag shape which is part of the French Frills set by Samantha Walker.  I wanted to dress up the tag a bit so I added one of the accent pieces from the Asian Accents set.  I cut it in half and added it behind my tag, top and bottom.  Finally I cut a small Labels 28 in red for the bottom layer in my sentiment focal piece.  I pierced the edges of the kraft card with which I matted my finished card.  A very easy, but striking card I think.  I hope you like it!  Finished Dimensions  7 1/2" x 8"   All for now, Sue x