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Hi crafters!  Happy Valentine's Day too!  I didn't have a Valentines card handy to show but today's card was a special request from a blog friend.  This one didn't get much air time last week so she wanted a close up of it.  I started with a piece of custard card and embossed it with the Rambling Blossoms embossing folder.  I then cut eight of the New York borders in coconut white card.  I also cut eight of the New York corners in coconut card.  Along the edge of my custard embossed card, I glued the borders around and then glued the corners on top.  They match up so I nipped the borders to the matching point first too before gluing them down.  Then I did the inner square of the borders and corners, but I raised them slightly by adding a thin strip of mounting foam along the border edge.  Next I stamped the Justrite Sunflowers in black Archival ink on coconut white card.  I cut them out using the decorative die and cutting edge from the Oslo set. I cut a white backing piece using just the cutting edge and glued them together.   The top of the sunflower was cut off  when I did this so I stamped it separately, cut it out and coloured it and placed it over the die at the end of the stem, raising it with foam.  I coloured the rest of the flowers with Distress markers and sponged a soft Tumbled glass ink into the background.  I raised another one of the lower flowers by stamping and cutting it out as well.  The centres of the flowers were coloured then I added clear micro beads over them for texture.  They look like they are different coloured beads, but they are just clear and magnifying the detail from the stamp and the colours of the ink I used.  I stamped a sentiment and cut it out with the tag from the Dainty Rectangle frame, tied a messy bow out of white seam binding and tucked the end of the tag under the pearl button that I used in the centre of the bow.  I finished the card with a double white mat, no piercing this time but I did add an edge of sticky tape on the inner mat and sprinkled Iced Snow on it.  It is subtle but you can see it coming through the outer border layer.  The finished dimensions are 7 1/2" x  7 1/2" in size.

Don't forget to scroll down to the post below to see the list of winners for the die giveaway too.  There are still quite a few that have not been claimed yet!!

The winner of this week's Wednesday Card Giveaway is:

Theresa Harding (TOB)!!!

Congratulations!  Please email me at americansue1@gmail.com to confirm your address and claim your card!  All for now, Sue x

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