Gorgeous Botanical papers

After a few months of non crafting, I have finally got my crafting mojo back - mainly thanks to the gorgeous Botanical papers from craftwork cards that came free with April's Papercraft Essentals magazine.

I would like to enter this into this week's Bring on the Bling challenge on the Allsorts Challenge Blog

Quite a simple card to make:

I inked the edges of a white DL card with Antique Linen distress ink
I matted one of the gorgeous  Craftwork Cards Botanical collection papers onto raspberry Creative Expressions Card before adding this to the card blank.
I stamped the sentimement on to white Centura pearl ( also inked with antique linen) and die cut this with the small pierced flag die from Sue Wilson's frames and tag collection.
I also die cut a butterfly from black card
Finally finished the card off with some pink gems, brads and black dazzlers.

Here are some more cards made from the same paper collection

Thank you Papercraft Essentials Magazine for these gorgeous papers

Sonja
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New beginnings

First of all thanks for stopping by and welcome aboard for the next step on my crafting journey - my very own blog!!

For most people a wedding is the beginning of a new chapter in their lives, so I thought there is no better way to get started than sharing my latest crafting creation - a card I made for one of my colleagues' wedding

I started by embossing some white Centura Pearl card with a pretty spring embossing folder (the folder was a free gift in one of the card magazines a couple of months ago)
I then cut the embossed card in 3 equal size (4x13cm) panels.
Using my tape pen, I stuck the panels evenly spaced on a piece of white Satin ribbon before glueing them to a white scallop shaped card blank
Using my Grand Calibur I die cut 2 hearts using the Spellbinder Vines of Passion dies from matt silver card
Before arranging the hearts on top of the embossed card panels, I decorated them with some Papermania Adhesive Shimmer Dots
To balance the card, I decorated the ribbon with a bow to the left and some more shimmer dots to the right

I hope you like the card and would like to invite you to leave me a comment and some feedback on my very first blog entry!
Love

Sonja xx