A Sweet Card for a Girl

Good morning everyone, the lovely summer weather we have had recently has inspired this candy coloured  birthday card.

I had the embossed white linen background on my desk in a "to use at some time" box of bits.  This was coloured with blue, pink, yellow and green distress oxides and spritzed with water to make the colours run.

The colours on the embossed panel were so lovely I picked a papermilldirect pale turquoise card blank,  white hemp textured 255gsm card, Spring green smooth 240gsm card and baby pink plain 240gsm card to match it.

The coffee cup was cut from the different coloured cards using a Tim Holtz large Sizzix die.  The cup was assembled , the heart was stamped and glittered and 2 lace flowers added before adding it to the embossed panel with 3D sticky pads.  The greeting was stamped onto a scrap of white card and attached with 3D sticky pads so it was the same height as the cup. 

The finished embossed panel was layered onto pink card then onto white hemp card and finally onto the blue card blank.

I have a few bits and pieces on my desk (embossed card, inky backgrounds and die cuts) which I keep out with the intention of doing something with rather than putting away in a box or throwing away.  I have set myself a task to make some cards or tags over the next few week using these pre-cut, coloured and die cut items.  I was so pleased how this card came together from a plain embossed panel and it will be interesting to see what I can do with the other items on my desk.

Sylv xx