You're Wonderful

 Hi bloggers!  A bit of a twist on a technique that I have done several times before.  I started with the New York Background cut out of black card. Next I cut the same background several more times, once out of blush card and once out of a pale mint green card.  However, I just used the fallaway pieces from those two cuts to reinsert them back into the original black die cut.  I placed a sticky adhesive sheet on the back of the black die cut so the exposed adhesive held the other colours in place nicely for me.  Since these are mostly rather large die cut areas, it was rather speedy to complete.  The twist on this one was that after all the pieces were back in place, I covered the entire front of it with another sticky adhesive sheet and burnished it down in to all the areas, peeled the backing paper off and coated it with Diamond Snow for a frosty look.  I absolutely loved the way it came out even though the soft subtle colours were very difficult to photograph cleanly.  I cut the Scandinavian tag in the pale mint green card (from my stash) and mounting over the centre of the background.  I stamped my sentiment and cut it out with the smaller oval from the Scandinavian Background die set and drew around it and cut it by hand for a larger oval in black as a mat for it.  I mounted it in the centre with foam.  I also used the background as a template to draw around to create a frame for it.  I cut the inside of the frame with a craft knife by hand and used the paper cutter to cut the outside edge of the black frame.  I mounted foam on it to raise it for dimension.  I completed the card with pierced white mat, then a thin blush and thin black mat and a final white mat layer.  Flatback pearls were added as embellishments too.  The finished dimensions are 6 3/4" x  9" in size.  All for now, Sue x

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