Thanks

Hi crafters!  A lovely little thank you card for today.  I started with the Portuguese background die and cut it in white.  I nipped it in half on my paper cutter and put the two halves together and took a bit more out of the middle to make it more narrow to fit my sentiment nicely.  I taped it back together and added foam pieces to the back and mounted it over another piece of white card.  I matted it with a nice blue card that I found in my craft stash.  Next I stamped a variety of sizes of the Perfect Peony matching stamp called Shaded Peony using a Clear Perfect medium on to the same blue card.  I heat embossed all the flowers in white embossing powder and cut them out with the matching dies.  I assembled all the flowers by giving them a bit of shaping with a stylus  and offset each flower using two cut flowers.  I added flatback white pearls in each of their centres.  I cut several of the Maidenhair fern die in white to add around the flowers which I used in opposite corners to hide my cut lines in the background die.  I cut the Vertical Thanks out of white and then cut the letter only die separately out of the matching blue card and glued them underneath the word in the centre.  I added mounting foam and secured it in the centre of my frame.  I completed the card by adding my usual trademark paper piercing around a white mat layer.  A thin blue mat and a larger white mat were then added to finish the card.  The finished dimensions are 6 1/4"  x  8 1/2" in size.  All for now, Sue x

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