Hi, crafty friends. It’s been a while since I’ve posted. I have no excuse. I always start the year a little slow crafting wise. It takes me a while to wind down after the hustle and bustle before Christmas. I think I just need time to start fresh. Last year my post holiday slump lasted until March, I was just making cards on autopilot until an event weekend away, which helped. This year, I’m hoping to get my mojo back sooner. I’ll clean up the mess on my desk left from creating this card, and then we’ll go from there.

Speaking of the card, I tend to go for spring/summer themed card and color palettes when we’re in the dead of winter. I want summer so badly, it’s not even funny. Last summer was cold and dreary, the summer before that all rained away. Can we get a proper summer this year? Please? Anyway, I used a floral image from a cut out sheet and paired it with a new die from Kort & Godt. New products help with mojo! This die cuts a circle sentiment, and what I didn’t realize before I actually used it was that it cuts an inside circle, too. It makes the die more versatile than if this were one large sentiment circular panel, but I wanted to use the flowers, so I puzzle pieced the two back together, added another circle panel on the back for a little bit of strength and a place to adhere the thin frame to.

I ran a quarter sheet of Ballet Slipper cardstock from Concord & 9th through my die cutting machine using an embossing folder, which gave this fun dimensional background. I mounted the die cut image in the center, cut down a couple of sentiment sticker strips and mounted those as well, before finishing off the card with a few faceted pearls.

Kort & Godt products used:

MA1012 (image)

ST1001 (sentiment sticker strips)

Die 365 (circle sentiment die)

ST178 (faceted pearls)