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Hello there. I have a card to share made for one of our closest friends, who has recently had to say goodbye to his fur baby:

I wanted to create a rainbow background, so cut some strips of coloured card stock down to one quarter and one half inch in rainbow colours – with a little gold glitter.

I adhered double sided sticky tape to a card panel, then placed all the strips as you see, following the ROYGBIV order to some extent, and the smaller gold glitter strips between each run through of that order.

I then used a Simon Says Stamp nesting arch die to cut this down, and adhered that to a card base.

The dog silhouette is from Pink & Main, received as part of the Crop & create earlier this year, die cut three times and stacked together.

The sentiment is from Gina K Designs, also received as part of the same virtual event, stamped, die cut, and also layered three times.

I shall be entering the following challenges:

Addicted To Stamps & More – any occasion

Time Out – photo inspiration -inspired by the rainbow colours

Sparkles Forum – animals

I was working on this card yesterday, and managed to finish it today, following the inspiration photo at Beautiful Blossoms:

Here is the inspiration photo I worked with:

The first thing I did was to search my CML app for flowers/florals. As you can imagine, literally hundreds came up. I narrowed the search to dies only, and as I knew that The Greetery had quite a few, I narrowed the search for that manufacturer only.

Taking several die sets, I used water-colour card and die cut the stems and then the flowers. The stems I coloured in my Zigs – quite roughly – then added some very light grey to the centre of each flower.

There were some wooden looking stems, so I used a dark brown for those.

Once I had a collection of coloured and layered elements, I used some other dies from The Greetery – the capsule series – to create the scalloped blue layer to bring in the blue of the vase in the inspiration photo, then added a frame which I also embossed using one of their embossing folder.

This frame was attached with thin strips of 3D foam, more towards the outside of the frame, as I knew I wanted to tuck some of the elements behind and under it.

The elements were arranged and attached with a mixture of 3D foam pieces – some very tiny – and other parts with glue.