a little bit of sentiment

I'm popping in this evening to show you the card I have just finished - this card uses one of  the freebie indigo Blu stamps from Simply Cards and Papercraft issue 123 which I purchased today in town.

Other ingredients ;

Spellbinders lacy circle die

sizzix circle #2 die

papermania bexley black capsule papers 

Annamarie Designs blueprint papers

Annamarie designs pearlescent card

green half pearls

Branches 1 SVG file cuts from Birds Cards

Flowers from Samaflora ( blossom, tiny rose, stemmed rose, pearl cenre rolled rose)

Tim Holtz distress ink - Broken China

Heat it up! embossing powder - blue glass

Black Ribbon

6 inch square card blank also from Annamarie Designs

to make this card I stamped the sentiment in clear embossing ink onto stamping card and heat embossed using heat it up powder, I then cut out on my Big Shot using one of the circles #2 dies, and inked around the edge. I matted onto a spellbinders lacy circle cut out of pearlescent cardstock.

I assembled the card base by matting a 14 cm square dotted paper which i had pre distressed with a paper distresser and inked in broken china ink onto a 14.3cm square blue paper, and attaching a black ribbon strip down the centre. This was all attached to the card blank.

I attached the matted sentiment on top of the ribbon , just under half way down the card, centrally.

I then laid out my branches and flowers and took a photograph once I was happy to refer to, and stuck them down with silicone glue, round the bottom left edge of the circle, making sure the sentiment could still be seen clearly. 

To finish up, I added a hand tied ribbon bow to the top, and four green half pearls at the corners.

I hope you love it- The sentiment of this stamp I think is beautiful, and I love how the flowers look around it. 

I would like to enter this card in :
http://challenges4everybody.blogspot.co.uk/ ATG
http://ditziedigidesigns.blogspot.co.uk/ ATG
http://lauralcraft.weebly.com/dragonfly-dreams-challenge how does your garden grow
http://www.hidinginmycraftroom.com/ embossing
http://open-mindedcraftingfun.blogspot.ca/2014/05/challenge-10-use-some-ribbon.html
http://kitandclowder.ning.com/may-challenge flowers
http://papercreatorscrafts.blogspot.co.uk/ flowers and bows
http://crafts4eternity.blogspot.co.uk/ use a die
http://stampingwithdragon.blogspot.co.uk/ flowers
http://stamplorations.blogspot.co.uk/2014/05/may-challenge-stamps-flowers.html
http://artisticinspirationschallenges.blogspot.co.uk/ ATG - punches or dies
http://cheerfulstamppad.blogspot.co.uk/ a bouquet of flowers
http://lovetoscrapchallengeblog.blogspot.co.uk/ ATG
http://craftcreatoins.blogspot.co.uk/p/new-challenge.html ATG
http://thepapernestdollschallenge.blogspot.co.uk/ ATG
http://cutedaisymay.blogspot.co.uk/ flourish