Special Day

Hello sweet friends!  Another of my "chockboard" cards.  This one is actually my favourite of them all I think.  I stamped the Floral Harvest Background by Justrite on to black card using a Snow Cap Adirondack pigment pad.  I cut the card a bit larger and added a white pencil line around the edge of it.  I tied some sky blue seam biding around the bottom of the card before I matted it on to our Sky Blue card.  I then matted it onto another mat of black with a faux stitched line around the edge.  The faux stitching was done with a white gel pen.  I stamped my sentiment from the JustRite Grand Sentiment set on to black card using a clear Perfect Medium pad.  I heat embossed it with white detail powder.  I cut it out with one of the smaller dies in the Elegant Labels 8 set and then rubbed some Snow Cap pigment ink across it for a chalky effect.  I matted it on to a piece of sky blue card that I cut with Gold Labels Four.  I tied a messy bow out of the blue seam binding and added it to my seam binding ribbon.  I finished the bow with a black Dazzler.  Using the Justrite Bunting die, I cut one out of black card.  I used the Snow Cap ink on it while it was still in the die to highlight the centres.  I made small blue flowers using the Layered Scalloped Posey dies and added them between each flag and one on my sentiment tag.  Small 3mm white pearls were added to the centres of each flower.  I finished the card with a double black mat which I distressed with the edges of my scissors.  Finished dimensions are 6 1/2" x 7 1/2" in size.  All for now, Sue x