Being Happy

.Hi everyone!  Another new card today for you.  Mint, melon and brown for today's card colour combo, mostly because I was itching to use some of the new silky crush ribbon in this colour!  This is very nice to work with and it has this great crushed texture to it.  I selected a piece of striped card for the background, distressed the edges with walnut stain and pulled colours from it for my rest of the card.  Although the card is rather masculine looking (and I bought it to use for guy cards), it looks rather nice when you girlie it up too.  I like that kind of versatility.  I cut the largest size from the Romantic Rectangle die templates but decided it needed a brown faux nestie mat behind it.  I mounted it at an angle (I like symmetry so I find this incredibly hard to do, but have tried doing it more lately so it feels better each time now!)  I folded the ribbon in half to create a top for the brown ruffled lace that I used.  I cut a damask border to peek from below the ruffled lace.  I tied a bow and topped it with one of the lovely lacy flowers and a button knotted with twine.  I stamped my sentiment on the largest size of Labels twenty five, inked the edge while still in the die with Spiced marmalade distress ink and mounted it straight atop the rectangle.  I added some pearlie swirlies to the side and some assorted buttons to the top corner to complete the card.  I hope you like the new dies and this has given you some inspiration.  All for now, Sue x