Wednesday Weekly Card Giveaway

 Hi bloggers!  I thought I would change it up again this week and put a clean and simple style up for the giveaway.  I love this card as it is really striking in person. There is just something about a card that is predominantly white but has a real pop of colour to it that always works for me.  I started by stamping the Stitched Flowers by Justrite stamps in black.  I stamped the bottom flower first, then cut a mask out of a post-it and covered it up.  I stamped the next flower slightly overlapping the first, then removed the mask and moved it to cover the second flower.  I continued this through all the flowers so they all look like part of the flower is covered up from the one next to it.  Next I used the round cutting edge from the Italian decorative frames and laid it in place where I wanted to cut the circle.  I used a pencil and traced the inside of the circle until it met the edge of the flowers.  I used the tip of my scissors to cut a whole inside the circle so that I was able to trim around the flowers.  This allowed me to slip the edge of the circle die under neath the flowers so it would not cut there and then I taped it into place where my pencil line was drawn.  This is called the "Into the box" technique.  I cut the remainder of the circle out without affecting the overhanging flowers.  I cut the next size in that set to get a pretty decorative circle that I recessed down (I used mounting foam to raise the top floral piece upwards.  I stamped my sentiment and cut it out with the smaller circle die in the set.  I inked it with Spiced Marmalade before removing it from the die and mounted it up on foam for the centre of my focal element.  I coloured all the flowers with Distress markers(Mustard Seed, Spiced Marmalade, Barn Door) and added matching buttons from my stash to the centres of each of them.  I finished the card with a double white mat with a pierced upper layer and three flatback pearls to the upper corner.  Finished dimensions are 7" x 8 1/4" in size.  Leave a comment if you would like to be entered in the drawing to win this card.  I'll announce the winner on Saturday's post.  All for now, Sue x