Treasured Friend

Hello there my crafty friends!  It's a buckle card, you know how much I love making these!  I selected a piece of decorative background card from my craft stash and covered it with a sticky adhesive sheet.  I peeled off the backing paper and micro beaded the entire piece for some lovely texture.  Next I cut two of the Caribbean Borders out of milk card and glued them to the top and bottom edges of the card.  I cut a length of double pearl strip down the centre and added a pearl strip to the outside of each of the borders.  I cut the St. Kitts die out of milk card and cut a matching milk backing piece.  I glued them together then used the smaller inner die to cut the centre out of both pieces creating a frame.  I cut two of the inside die shape from the St. Lucia die out of milk card and used the oval die to cut them into frames as well.  I used the Pierced flag die set to cut a double ended forked strip to use as the buckle for the card.  I carefully wove it through the two side dies and the centre die and added mounting foam to the back to raise it for dimensions.  It is a very tight fit (if you decide to re-create this card), but can be done with a bit of patience.  I stamped my sentiment and cut it out with the oval from the Caribbean background die and inked it with Evergreen Bough distress ink to match my background card.  I added it to the centre of my card with mounting foam.  I embellished the die cuts with some cream flatback pearls before adding my usual matting and layering to complete the card.  The finished dimensions are 6 1/2" x  8" in size.

                                                         Follow my blog with Bloglovin