Sweet Posies for me

Hi everyone and Happy Boxing Day - that is what we call Dec 26th here in Canada.  Not only is it boxing day, but it is my Birthday!! woohoo for me. -- 29 again!  LOL

It's been a very relaxing day as I guess our birthday's should be right?  Bill and I took a drive this morning in search of some Snowy Owls that are in our surrounding area.  We were able to spot 5 of them, what a beautiful bird.  Bill took some photo's, not sure how close up we will be in order to crop them since they were quite a distance away.  Looking through the binoculars they were gorgeous. I'll share them if they turn out.

So this afternoon I decided to work on some cards.  My stash basket is empty so need to replenish.
I pulled out a new stamp set from Justrite called Sweet Posies.  

I started by white embossing the image on some Tim Holtz water colour paper.  To colour the image I pulled out my Peerless swatches and painted away.  This is the first time I actually coloured an image using the Peerless, I'm quite pleased on how this turned out.

I then cut out the image using a circle die, but first cutting the stems up to where I wanted the circle to cut so the stems would hang over the circle edge.  I then edged the circle using my Krylon Silver pen.
The image was then layered onto  another piece of white c/s cut using the larges die from the spellbinder royal circle die set.

My card base is 5.5 x 5.5.  Along the front edge I taped down one of the borders from Spellbinders scalloped borders two and ran this through my big shot.  I did the same with the designer paper, and then adhered the dp to the card front.  Cut a strip of matching paper  2 x 5.5 and adhered this to the left side then cut a .25 x 5.5 of the background paper and layered this onto of the stripe.  Adhered some fushia seam binding ribbon starting at the top edge then brought it down behind the image. I then adhered a bow.  Finished off with some sequins and added glitter using my wink of stella clear pen to the posies.

Supplies:
Stamp: Justrite - sweet posies, 
Dies: Spellbinders - standard circle, royal circle, scalloped borders two
Paper- cougar white 110 lb, Kaisercraft - chanteuse collection
Ink - Peerless swatches
Misc - silver krylon pen, sequins, wink of stella clear pen, seam binding ribbon

Thanks for stopping by for a visit. Enjoy your day.  

Pauline