It's A Giveaway Day!

Morning bloggers!  I had planned on doing this one as a demo in  the shows in December, but we didn't have any micro beads in stock at the time.  It is a small card by my standards, but I found  this piece of decorative background paper that was only 5" x 5" in size so I started with that.  It has a very vintage feel to it with the blue design on the cream coloured background, but I decided it  was calling out to be micro beaded.  I cut two of the Asian Motifs out of milk coloured card.  On one of them I used the smaller die in the centre to cut a frame.  I inked the shapes with Stormy Sky distress ink while still in the die.  Next I used the Fancy Lattice background die with blue card to cut a piece to put in the Asian frame on top.  Using the French Frills stamp set by JustRite, I stamped the thank you tag.  I cut it out with the matching French frills die set.  While in the die, I inked it with Stormy Sky ink.  This left a pretty milk coloured border around it.  The tag cuts in two pieces so I popped the sentiment part up on foam pieces for dimension and left the tag frame flat.  I added flatback pearls to the corners of the tag.  I mounted the tag across the centre of my Asian Motifs which I had stacked and offset.  I tied a pretty little bow out of the cream silky crush and added a heart Dazzler and stick pins to it.  I added the bow to the side of the card with glue dots.  I finished the corners with flatback pearls of 3 and 5mm sizes using the dries clear Cosmic Shimmer glue to adhere them to the micro beads.  I matted the entire piece on a larger piece of blue card.  You will get a laugh out of this, but I can't leave a pierced edge on the last mat on my card (it's a weird quirk, I know), but I didn't have enough of this card to add another mat behind it so no piercing this time.  I think it really needs it, but I hope you will let me slide this once! LOL  Finished dimensions are 6" x 6" in size.
   I thought that it was about time to do another card giveaway today!  All you have to do is leave a comment today and you will be entered in the drawing to win this card.  It's as simple as that!  I will do the drawing and announce the winner later in the week, don't forget to check back!  All for now, Sue x