New Things Challenge card

 

Good Morning Ladies, 

I hope that you all had a lovely weekend,  it was nice weather here, lovely and warm when the sun showed it's face. We were out in the front garden, tidying up the borders, getting rid of these awful lily type plants that really don't seem to have any flowers as such, the ends of their leaves turn black over winter, they just look scruffy, so I got Paul to dig them all out, it looks much tidier without them, one thing we did notice was that there were loads of Ladybirds,  I must have seen at least 30, a year ir two back they were hard to spot. We went out at around noon and I was shocked that it was almost five when we stopped.  So I think today will be a relaxing day for me, Paul has to go into work today so I will just potter in my craft room. 

Today's card is Paul's Mum's Birthday card,  I made it over the weekend using things from my 'New /Unused' Basket.  I decided to create a z Fold card using a Dreamees Gatefold Die, not a company I have used before but I couldn't resist this lacy oval die set. 

Just look at that gorgeous lace detail! They are lovely quality dies, I did use a shim but my Gemini is a few years old now so that could be why.

The paper pad I used was Dreamees too, it is lovely soft peaches and browns, it's called Vintage.

So I layered up the papers from the Vintage collection and the die cut the beautiful Oval, using one of the Vintage papers layered onto a piece of 300gsm card for stability, I then cut a soft peach glitter card to layer underneath the lace oval to give a touch of luxury. I layered the matching plain ovals to put the sentiment on and what I did to make sure the two ovals lined up was to hold the oval for the sentiment exactly matched up to the back of the oval on the front, i added a little glue to the back and the closed the card so that the oval was placed exactly behind the oval on the card front.  

To embellish the card, I used some of the papers from the collection and stamped flowers on and die cut them,  I shaped them in my Heartfelt flower mold and layered them up and arranged them on the card front. I stamped the 'Happy Birthday Mum' and used a flag die to cut it out, I glued in place lifting it slightly in the centre for dimension. I also stamped a verse on the oval inside the card.

I hope Paul's Mum likes it, I really enjoyed making it.

I hope you all have an enjoyable day,

Love and hugs to all of you 

Sandra

xxxxxx