Just for you card - an cascade of Peonies

I am sharing a card made for another crafty friend of mine. Over the first lockdown, we decided to to do a make and swap between us and using two of her favourite colours, this is the card that I came up with.

 For this lovely lady, I decided to go for a cascade of peonies made using Fleurs Flower forming foam and my Tattered Lace Charisma Swift Peony die set.

I used some fabre castel oil pastels on the edges of the petals to tone my flowers to give them a more natural flower look and to accompany the peonies I also used the Fleurs dahlia leaf dies for foliage.

Using a lemon base card (8x8), I added an apricot layer of card to compliment the flowers. One of my favourite Tattered Lace die sets is the Fine Filament collection because of its detailed lacy square panel die. 

Just under the lacy lemon panel die, I also added a white vellum layer which I had smooshed some of my Dreamees dinky inky ink pad in gold mist (using a soft make up brush I had). This ink pad just leaves a hint of gold shimmer on the vellum, just enough to shimmer through the die-cut panel.

After adding my flowers I finished my card with a heat embossed sentiment using gold embossing powder onto a piece of vellum and adding just a few Dreamee olive pearls.

I was really happy with how it turned out and that my friend liked it too. In return, I received a gorgeous card that sits on my dressing table in my bedroom.

Happy crafting!