Celebrating You

 Good morning everyone!  One of my favourite colour combos today, black and white!  I embossed a piece of black card with my Heart Lattice embossing folder (which, by the way, is finally back in stock after many months!)  I cut a slightly smaller piece of coconut white card and used the Bracket Border die with a decorative insert to cut a large corner area off the card.  I cut a diagonal cut across the opposite corner.  I embossed this piece using the Interlocking Circles embossing folder while the Bracket Border die was still in place, then glued it to my background.  Using the Delicate Aster stamps and dies (from Heartfelt Creations), I made several flowers of varying sizes. I stamped the flowers and heat embossed them with True White embossing  powder.  I did some of the leaves from the set as well in the same manner.   I used the Snow Cap white alcohol ink to dye large micro beads and used them for the centres of my flowers.  I used Cosmic Shimmer dries clear glue to secure them in the centres of the flowers.  I mounted my flowers along the upper cut edge of my card.  I stamped my sentiment (from JustRite stamps) and cut it into a strip with a forked end.  I matted it with a slightly larger piece of black card and cut the end to match.  I tucked the end under one of the flowers then used a glue got to secure it into place with a bit of a wave to it.  I added a black rhinestone swirl as an accent below it.  I finished the card with a double white pieced mat and some flatback pearls as embellishments.  Finished dimensions are 7" x 8" in size.  All for now, Sue x