Floral Bouquet Birthday Card

Hello, Crafters.

I hope you've had a lovely weekend and are all set for the

 week ahead! Today I fancied doing some fussy cutting and I

think this has to be one of the most fussiest pieces of fussy 

cutting I've ever done! LOL! 

 I found it very relaxing, and I'm sure I could quite happily

 spend an evening just fussy cutting! The flowers are from 

one of the designs from the Share What You Love Designer

 Series Paper (DSP).

Before I adhered the flowers to a Whisper White Stitched Shape

 oval, I stamped the oval with a splattered stamp from The Touches

 of Textures Stamp Set, which I'm really pleased  is being carried

 forward to the next annual catalogue. 

For the splatter I used Rich Razzleberry Ink that I'd stamped off

 three times, and therefore used fourth generation stamping. The

splatter is visible in places and does what I wanted it to do

 i.e. to take the edge off the starkness of the Whisper

 White Cardstock (CS).  

 I dry-embossed the Rich Razzleberry layer behind the the white

 oval using our fabulous Basket Weave Dynamic Embossing 

Folder. This was one of the gifts available during Sale-a-bration

 earlier this year, but I really thrilled that it has been carried

forward to the new Annual Catalogue. 

 I used the Happy Birthday sentiment from the Confetti 

Celebration Stamp Set, and the butterfly from the Flying Home

 Stamp Set. Unfortunately, both these stamp sets will be

retiring on 31st May 2018.

 I finished the front of the card by adding three pearls around the 

flowers and one each end of the sentiment. The other finishing

 touch was a pretty bow made with the luscious new Velvet Rich 

Razzleberry Ribbon, which was just one of the gifts I received 

when I went to CentreStage at the beginning of April! 

 To decorate the inside of the card, I added a layer of Whisper 

White CS, and adhered a small section of the same image I'd

 fussy cut from the Share What You Love DSP. As I've been 

writing this, I've had another idea how I can use this fussy cut floral

 bouquet - maybe I'll do it in time for tomorrow's blog - time will tell!

 That's it from me today. I hope you have a lovely Monday, and

 until tomorrow, happy crafting!

JanB.