Dogwood - die cutting, flower shaping

We recently found out our former neighbour has cancer. I made this card for her for us and our other neighbours to send to her. Our little street is dotted with dogwood trees, so I wanted to have them prominent on the card for her. The sentiment is from Kraftin' Kimmie Stamps, the dogwood die is Spellbinders.

Putting It Together

I got the dogwood die set after we moved here because of the dogwoods here. 

I used a plain 65lb cardstock and covered it with Nuvo mousse Toasted Almond to have a slightly shimmery pale paper for the flowers. I used Citrus mousse for the leaves. for the flowers, I added an accent of Cosmic Shimmer Graphite.

I shaped the leaves using a clay tool and a beading mat.

I put together four flowers and began working out a layout.

I decided to use an Ultimate Crafts die as a frame and a 6" 6" square card to have room for all of us to add little personal sentiments.

I used a textured paper for the background and gold foiled cardstock for the frame. I stamped the sentiment in black on a pearl cardstock panel I had die cut and trimmed. I wanted to keep the card simple and dignified.

Inside, I added a soft ribbon and inside sentiment from Unity Stamps.

Supplies

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