Thank You For All You Do

 Hi there my crafty friends!  Think milk, lilac and black on this one as I know the colour is off a bit on the pics.  That milk card is lovely but always photographs a bit yellow for some reason.  Starting with the background, I used the Austrian background and cut it out of milk card.  There are no outside cutting edges on any of my backgrounds so you are able to decide just how wide of a border you would like for your projects.  I love a wider border edge for a couple of reasons, but mostly because it gives me somewhere to put my mounting foam so that is what I did next.  I adhered the cut background atop a piece of lilac card and then gave it a black mat as well.  For the focal element, I stamped the Arched Swirls (Stamp to die for range by Cr. Exp.) in black on milk card.  I cut it out with the matching die from the Burgundy die set and inked through it with Shaded Lilac distress ink.  I mounted foam on the back and placed it in the centre of my background.  I stamped my sentiment in black and cut it out with the inner oval from the Salzburg die.  I inked it with Shaded Lilac as well before removing it.  The sentiment tag was then seated upon the tag from the Austrian border, corner tag set.  Using the Delicate Daisies, I cut several in lilac from the Complete petal die set, then over laid them with the matching size from the Delicate Daisy Open petal set cut out of black.  I seated the largest flower on to the centre of a messy bow tied from mauve seam binding and a black jute twine bow and added two more flowers in the opposite corner.  8mm cream flatback pearls adorn their centres.  The card was then completed with a pierced mat of milk card, a lilac and black mat and a final milk mat.  The finished dimensions are 7 1/4" x 9" in size.  All for now, Sue x