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Guess what? Today's a playdate with a friend. Yep. We're 'Playing Cards With Friends' today. My sweet and talented friend, Michele Ferguson from I Card Everyone asked if I'd like to join her and create a card. Delightful! Michele gave these parameters: Make a card for a neighbor or friend, and hand deliver it. Flowers are always welcome, in fact, let's make them die cut flowers. Include a kind sentiment. Check, check and check! And if you look closely, I added an embossed background…

Cathy Mac | Is it possible that I’ve had these Be Bold Blooms dies from @teamspellbinders for a year and am just now using them? The stripes… | Instagram

I had pulled out My Favorite Things Bold Blooms dies and went searching on line for examples of cards that had been created with them. I saw a lovely designs by Rachel Alvarado. She used white, purple, and yellow for her flowers. I decided to use a light aqua, pink, and white. This card also uses a lot of her layout design using various leaves from the Bold Leaves dies in different colors of green cardstock.The two layers of the flowers were adhered together with foam squares. The flower ce

Hi there! I finally got hold of Spellbinders' Be Bold Blooms die set and I love it even more in real life! I've been kicking myself for not grabbing it when I saw it at the start of the year, so I certainly didn't dither when I saw that Sir Stampalot had them back…

I love this set of Be Bold Blooms dies from Spellbinders. There are different sized flowers and leaves and they layer together to give a lot of visual interest. I also cut some larger leaves using the My Favorite Things Layered Leaves die. Dimension to the center of the flower was added by using a darker hue of pink ink and ink blending with a mini blending brush.The layout was inspired by a similar card made by Jennifer McGuire. I used gold mirror cardstock for the center of my flowers and

I had so many flowers and leaves leftover from my previous card that I decided to make another. This time using less flowers.The Memory Box Matinee Rectangle was used to cut a panel from white cardstock. I used the second largest die. This gave a smaller canvas, if you will, to arrange the flowers on. I decided to dry emboss it using the Darice Basketweave Embossing Folder. If you look at my cards you will see that adding texture behind a focal point is a favorite of mine. I like the way i