Thinking Of You Makes Me Smile

 Hi bloggers!  A pretty framed card for today's offering.  I find myself picking up this Graphic 45 background paper far to often as I just love the vintage feel to the pattern.  I used a small strip of it for the bottom panel on this card and put it with our coconut white and mauve (their name, not mine, I think it looks more lavender) card.  I embossed the white background with my decorative panel attached with my Tapestry embossing folder.  I cut a mauve border to the decorative panel using the  Bracket Border die set, another of my favourite go-to sets.  I added a thin white strip across the top as an extra element, then tied a messy bow out of white seam binding.  One of the frosted lavender Dazzlers matched perfectly so I seated it in the centre of my bow.  For my focal element, I used the Decorative Labels One die set and cut two frames using  the two largest dies and then another two frames using the next size smaller in the die set.  I glued the two largest frames together offsetting them and did the same with the other two frames.  I stamped my sentiment on to white card using a Black Archival ink pad.  I used one of the stamps from the Celebrations Labels One from Justrite set to add some interest around my sentiment.  I stamped it with a clear perfect medium pad and white embossed it.   I added some foam mounting pieces to the backs of both frame sets and then offset them over the sentiment and trimmed the excess card away from my sentiment piece.  I loved the pretty way these dies frame my sentiment using the two different sized frame pairings.  I added some flat back pearls to my frames and the corners and finished with my double white pierced matting layers.  A nice way of letting someone know they are in your thoughts!  Finished dimensions are 6 1/2" x 8 1/2" in size.  All for now, Sue x