With Gratitude

 Morning bloggers!  This is the simple card demo that I did last weekend.  It really is the sort of standard card I first make when I get the new die prototypes.  Nothing too fancy, I just want to see how things layer up and the different sets fit together.  I started with a piece of coconut white card and cut the decorative die from the Stockholm set out of the upper half of the card.   I backed this with an aqua piece of card that I allowed to extend into a mat layer.  I added a thin black mat to create the background.  I cut the Scandinavian border in white and glued it across the bottom portion of the card and nipped the ends even with the sides of the card.  If you only put glue down the centre of the border die, you can raise the edges up a bit and it looks like real lace.  Next I cut two of the Scandinavian tags in aqua card, crisscrossed them and added them to the focal element.  I stamped my sentiment in black and cut it out with the inside of the Copenhagen die set.  I inked it with Adirondack Aqua ink before removing it from the die.  I backed it with a piece of aqua card cut using only the outer die this time and glued them together.  I added this piece with foam to complete the focal element on my card.  Next I made a single flower using both the Complete petal and the Open petal Camellia die sets.  I used aqua and black and glued the two pieces together.  I added it with a black jute twine bow to the middle of my border.  A small 8mm black Dazzler finished off the centre of the flower.  The card was then completed with a white paper pierced mat, a thin aqua and black mat and a final white mat layer.  The finished dimensions are 6 3/4" x  8" in size.

I attended the award ceremonies last evening, but sadly did not win for best blog.  Maybe next year!

On another note, Julia Watts is going to be running a series of great workshops in Milton Keynes featuring some of my die range. The first one is on Saturday 7th March. For more information, please contact Julia directly at juliawattscrafts@gmail.com

All for now, Sue x

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