It's All About the Tools!

Tools used to make this One little card: Big Shot, Nestibilities, Cuttlebug Embossing Folder, Cricut, 3 different punches, Character Shaping tool.

Made this card for my mom's birthday last week! It is very tool - intensive, but in the end, that just means it was super duper easy!! The tools did all the work! I had all the supplies out on my craft table for this so I just went for it. The CS is PTI Aqua Mist, SU Whisper White and a teensy bit of Old olive for the little flower stems. I used the Cricut Storybook Cartridge to cut out the sentiment, then my Lables 4 Nestabilities die to impress a frame. I used the Cuttlebug dotted border EF from the Just My Type set for the bottom edge. I tied a PTI Aqua Mist ribbon around the first panel and then proceeded to make my flowers. The first punch I used for the flowers was the MS Layering Daisy Punch. I punched out two daisys in white CS, then shaped them with my cool "character shaping tool" (which is a very inexpensive but useful tool if you like making paper flowers!), and added a large half-back faux pearl from the SU Pretties kit. Then I used my SU Trio Flower Punch and punched several small flowers from white CS, inked the edges with PTI Aqua Mist ink, and impressed them to make the petals pull. I dropped a white seed beed in the middle to finish them off. Finally, I punched a couple of sprigs out of Old Olive CD and adhered everything in place. Thanks for stopping by!!