Friends Are A Wonderful Gift

Good morning all!  Hopefully the sun is still blessing you today with it's presence!  I dearly hope that I will be able to come home next week to some of it!  A card from the Die D-Lite shows awhile back is on offer today.  I started with the sky blue card from our pastel card pack and used the Fretwork mask to emboss the design.  I wanted a larger background so I extended the mask to achieve this.  This particular mask has a border around it so I cut off the border on one side of my mask so I don't get a line from it when extending the pattern.  If I want the border around the mask such as when I am doing a background in the same size as the mask's original size, I can still achieve it by rotating my mask one turn and re-embossing so it isn't a problem.  I decided to use a wide embossed coconut white strip.  I embossed it with the Petal Pleasures embossing folder from Couture Creations then cut the end into a fork and matted it with a matching black mat.  I stamped my sentiment on a strip of white card using a black Archival ink pad.  I cut a fork into the end of it also and mounted it on matching black card.  I attached it across the card slightly below the mid point.  To create the black rosette, I cut three of the Medallion Seven D-Lite.  I scored across each of them, then cut to the centre and concertina folded each of them.  Although I usually only use two dies for a rosette, I felt this one just needed one more to give it the look that I wanted.  I glued all the pieces together.  I used the very small dies that are in the Medallion seven and eight sets to cut the blue and white centre circles.  I added a 5mm pearl to the centre and mounted my rosette at the junction of my two flagged pieces.  I added a pearl swirl to the card and pierced the inner layer of my double white mat to complete the card.  I think this layout would work great for the guys in whatever colour combo you select for them too!  Finished dimensions are 7" x 8" in size.  All for now, Sue x