Framed Florals

 I needed to make a birthday card for a friend and her favorite thing is flowers on cards (she has specifically stated that if I continue to make her cards, she wishes they would all be flower cards). The last 2 flower cards I've given her have been colored so I wanted to do something different, so I did some beautiful heat embossing on this card. I ended up making a 2nd card to have on hand and made it slightly different. You know what you have to do to see this card...

For this 1st card I went with glittered gold heat embossing, which is the card I gave to my friend, the 2nd card I used a different color heat embossing, you'll be able to see that below.

After heat embossing the flowers I heat embossed the small sentiment and then die cut it with the stitched circle dies. I then used the stitched squares dies to make a polaroid type frame, just nesting a smaller frame die inside the larger when I cut it out.

I had some extra lavender flower punch outs from one of the SU! Paper Pumpkin kits that my crafty friend sent me and I thought it would be a beautiful addition to the side of the frame. Adding some purple friendship bracelet thread and tying a pretty bow just completed this card for me in a way that made me really smile.

The gold embossing powder is VERY glittery and so pretty, and that's coming from someone who really doesn't like gold much at all. 

Here is the 2nd card, it's the same, I just used silver embossing powder, and it's my favorite of the two cards because I love everything silver!

I think the flowers came out more clear with this silver embossing powder than they did with the glittery gold powder. But that's ok, both are still very pretty.

The frame and sentiment are all 3D, I used foam pop up tape to get them raised that way the whole card wasn't flat.

The silver is SO shiny!

I hope that you enjoyed this simple, yet elegant card. It's a good way to highlight one part of a beautiful part of a large stamp.

Please come back soon to check out what I've made, I still have lots to share with you. Thanks for stopping by!

Keep on Craftin'!
~Melisa Marie