Just Because

Good morning to all!  This is another one of those really quick cards that I made to showcase the dies from the last show and wasn't anything particularly special, but I rather liked it when I finished.  I love this paper and I have to confess that I have purchased another pack of it as it just ticks all my boxes!  I don't usually go for metallics, but it is subtle enough in these prints that I can still have my ginormous bows and still feel like it is just barely on this side of OTT (in other words, it works for me!)  I will tease you just a tiny bit and let you know that I have some new ribbons that will be on my next set of shows in February that look lovely with these papers, can't wait for you to see them!  I did use one of them on a sample I posted last year and several of you spotted it and emailed me about it then.  Won't be long now!  Back to the card for today, I did a background of three strips of this lovely paper and matted them with a soft gold and then a piece of black card.  I cut a Fleur de lis rectangle out of black card for the focal element.  I stamped my sentiment and then cut it out with the holly motifs.  I cut a second holly motif and I nipped off the holly pieces from both of them and offset  mounted them with foam over my rectangle.  I tied a big double bow and added a black organza rose to the centre.  Paper piercing on the edge to complete the card, as usual.   Super simple but a nice quick card if you need one.  Hope you like it!  All for now, Sue x