Floral Corner

For today’s cards, I fancied doing some die-cutting so dug out a couple of Spellbinders sets to play with. 

For the base of the arrangement, I die-cut the one of the Essential Circles and the pierced circle.  I appreciate that I’m using a circle and the post refers to corners but you get the idea!

For the floral element, I used some left over die-cuts from Be Bold Blooms, adding to them as required.  For this card, I decided to add a silver accent using silver foil card for the foliage.

After silver heat-embossing the sentiment from MFT Greetings Galore I arranged the foliage and flowers and then glued them in place, attaching the final flower with thin foam tape.

I was going to mount the circle on a 5” square black card blank but my first attempt at drawing a border with a white Posca pen was awful where the paint had run under the ruler.  The silver Edding pen worked much better so I chopped the card blank in half and used the back as the mat layer.

To finish, I glued it onto a square card blank, adding gems in the corners.

This next card was made on along similar lines, using gold accents.

My last card was one of the ones we all dread making; a sympathy card.  I decided on a limited palette and used kraft, white and dark brown card straight onto kraft card as it was going to an all-male household.  I really liked how this one turned out.