More Purple, Green and White

This week I am entering a second card in the Joan's Gardens weekly challenge.  Just like the first card, here are the guidelines:

• Use a leaf design for the background (die cut, embossed or stamped)
• Add purple flowers
• Use White, Green and Purple Colors
• Use A Sentiment
• You must use a product sold at Joan's Gardens
• Mention that you are doing the card/project for Joan's Gardens Challenge

I started out with a leaf embossing folder and embossed a white piece of paper, then backed it with green and purple papers from my stash. Next, is a sentiment that I had in my stash printed from my color computer; I backed it with purple cardstock, and a die cut frame done in white. Behind that is a piece of green cardstock.  I mounted the sentiment with dimensional stickies. Next, I cut from a Nellie Snellen die some green flourishes and punched out some small purple blossoms and glued them to the die cuts. It is finished off with a purple and white gingham bow.

Here is a picture of the card:

Well, looking at this it seems a bit boring.  It needs some bling. So I took some glitter glue and put a dot in the middle of each flower to add a little interest.  It is subtle, but the added sparkle seems to help. Then I added a Pippi butterfly made of white vellum dabbed with purple ink, and put a rhinestone in the center of it.  Here is the "blinged-up" card, enlarged a bit so you can see the bling more clearly:

And here is a closeup of the butterfly.  This is my favorite butterfly die because it is just the right size for cards and it is so delicate and lacy:

These are the tools I used for making the card:

• Spellbinders: Flora Embossing Folder, EL-009; Fleur De Lis Rectangles, S4-317
• Nellie Snellen:  SD-002 Leaf and Tiny Flower Flourish
• Memory Box:  Pippi Butterfly
• PaperStudio:  Daisy Lever Punch
• Purple and White Gingham Ribbon
• Iridescent glitter glue

Items in green may be purchased at Joan's Gardens.

As always, thank you for stopping by my blog.  I always count it a great honor when friends come to visit. May God's highest and best blessings come to you both today and every day.

Big blessings,

Ginny B.