Fun Foam Floral Thank You Card

Fun Foam Floral Thank You Card

I saw a crafty friend Vera's design for this Card Challenge today and thought that I would like to join in with the SugarPea Mix It Up Challenge 40.  Unfortunately, I haven't got any SugarPea stamps or dies at present so I had to use resources currently in my craft stash to create my design.

So initially I cut out an oval and a circle in a piece of foil blue card.  Then in my craft stash I found an A2 card with a printed blue swirl pattern on it.  Next I cut out the sentiment 'Thank You' in a joined up font with my Big Shot and adhered this to the oval.  

I had my blue rhinestones ready to adhere at the end to embellish this design and to co-ordinate with that of the sketch above.  My problem was I could not think of what to do with the circle or put on the circle.  Do I stamp an image, if so, what image?  Do I die cut something, if so, what?  

Whilst I was pondering about this, I looked around my bedroom and noticed the pack of 'Fun Foam' I had just ordered from Amazon sitting on my shelf.  I picked the pack up took out a piece of green, orange and pink.  From my die folder I took out an assortment of flowers and leaves that I had.  I ran these through the Big Shot, some more than once if there was room on the 2" strip of Fun Foam I had cut from each colour.  I did not want to waste it - if it wasn't going to work.  

I then started to arrange the pieces on to the blue foil circle edge.  Some of the shapes I layered on top of each other.  I decided to go for it, so I started adhering pieces of the shaped Fun Foam with wet glue onto the circle forming a floral arrangement.  I tucked leaves underneath flowers, I put small flowers on top of larger ones to form the centres and I added small pearl embellishments for extra bling!  To complete my design I added 3 blue rhinestones in the places indicated on the sketch.  My project was now finished.  

I would love to know what you think about my project, so please leave a comment.  Thank you.

Till next time, keep crafting!

Lorraine

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