My Personal Favourite

 Hi bloggers!  I completely forgot this card because I had put it into a special folder on my computer for the project book cards (those cards are not to be shown on my blog).  However, we ended up not using this one in the book so it gets to have a blog showing afterall.  I love this one, not sure if it is the crisp clean blue and white combo or all the flowers, the bling or the trellis effect but it is one of my favourite cards.  Maybe just because it took me ages with all those flowers, who knows! LOL  I started with some decorative paper I purchased.  One side is striped and I used that for the background.  The other side is dotty which I used for some of the flowers and my sentiment.  I used my edgeability insert to cut four border pieces.  I decided to use them with a white piece behind for tone on tone look.  I cut strips of white paper and wove it to form my lattice.  The way that I do this is to tape four or five strips all going the same direction to my craft mat.  Then I weave the others through them and tape them down to my craft mat once I am satisfied with the spacing.  Then I put double sided tape on the back of my border pieces and lay them down on top of the lattice on my craft mat.  I then peel it off my craft mat as one piece and trim away any lattice pieces that show outside my borders.  I add foam mounting pieces to the back to raise it above my background paper (I hope that all makes sense).  Once the lattice was in place, I used the Bitty Blossoms to cut all but two of the flowers of varying sizes and colours.   I rolled them and used glue dots to place them on my card.  For the two largest flowers, I used the Button Floral stamp to make my roses out of the dotty paper.  I used the swirl from the Heartfelt Creations dutch Iris die set to add some accents to my floral spray.  Next I cut one of the Labels 20 die out of white card.  I added natural pearl Nestabling to it and added it in the corner with mounting foam.  I stamped the Justrite Fleur de Lis using a clear perfect medium pad.  I heat embossed it with white powder and cut it out with the matching die.  I stamped the sentiment in the middle then mounted it in the middle of the larger blingey Labels 20.  Of course, it wasn't complete until I added my signature pierced edge!  I think it screams my name now, don't you! LOL  All for now, Sue x