Hello My Friend

 Hello crafters!  Stitched flowers are the star of this card.  I did reach for my Heart Lattice embossing folder for the background on this one (I made this card before I had the new folders in my possession!).  I actually cut the aperture using the California Collection Decorative Frames Set B, which gave me a pretty pierced aperture opening, then I embossed it with the Heart Lattice folder.  I wanted a little bling so I added a glue bead all the way around the edge and sugared it with Diamond Sprinkles.  I used smaller sizes of the dies from the California Collection to create a decreasing aperture and I alternated with custard card and coconut white card.  I wanted to create areas where I could tuck flowers into so they were peeking out behind others flowers.  I stamped the stitched flowers on to an assortment of coloured card, blush, custard, periwinkle and duck egg blue using a Black Archival ink pad.  I cut them out by hand as they are all very easy to cut, added some tone on tone colouring with Distress Markers  and layered them up with the leaves around the opening of the aperture.  I stamped a sentiment in black and mounted the aperture over it.  I added some pearl swirls to the top and bottom of the card and scattered a few pearls across the sentiment.   The card was then finished with a double white pierced mat with a thin custard card mat in the middle.  Finished dimensions are 7 1/2" x 9" in size.