Fabulous Day

 Good morning all!  I thought I would show off one of the pretty matching stamps for the Spanish Collection with today's card.  On aqua card, I stamped the Floral Cartouche stamp using a black archival ink pad.  I cut it out with the outer cutting edge of the Valencia die.  I coloured the stamped image with Distress markers and highlighted areas with a soft lead white pencil.  To create the background I used the Quilted Flower embossing folder with a piece of coconut white card.  I wrapped some zircon green seam binding around opposite corners and taped the ends to the back.  I used mounting foam on my stamped die cut and added it the centre of the card.  I stamped a sentiment and then cut it out with the Fancy Framed Tags One set.  I inked it through the die with some Tumbled Glass and Dusty Concord distress inks and mounted it in the middle of the card.  I tied a messy bow with the zircon seam binding and added some Bakers Twine before finishing it with a white crystal sparkler in the centre.  I made two fancy stick pins to adorn the bow.  The rest of the card was completed with some matting and layering with both aqua and white card and a pierced mat layer.  Finished dimensions are 6 1/2" x 9" in size.  All for now, Sue x