Amazing Friend Vase

Hello Everyone! It is Zsofi here today with a pretty floral inspiration on how to use a shaker die not for a shaker card. I mixed the latest release with some of my older favourite dies, let me guide you through the process.

First I die cut the elements from the Vase Shaker die set. For the vase I cut one light blue and one black, the bottom layer I cut from cream and gold cardstocks and layered them on top of each other tiny offset, so the black layer serves as shadow, while the gold works as extra embellishment. 

I stamped the sentiment from the new Friend Greetings stamp set directly on the vase. I like this technique when there is not much extra room on a card front for a bit bigger sentiment.

For the bouquet I used my all time favourite Spring Foliage die set and used up a bunch of scrap cardstock. When arranging them on the top of my vase, I started from the bottom and kept adding extra flowers and leaves till my heart was happy how it looked.

I really wanted to use the new Notched Squares dies for the background, but my bouquet was too big to fit. Therefore I had to use a trick: I die cut the biggest square from kraft cardstock and cut it in half. Then I die cut another square from patterned paper and simply adhered the 2 kraft halves on the top and bottom of the patterned piece. This way I got a rectangle out of a square and it fills a card front completely!

After assembling the card, I used Marshmallow Pearls to embellish the flower centres. It really adds a lot to the design. 

I hope you liked this card idea and got inspired. I cannot wait to see your beautiful floral creations, make sure to share them in the Pretty Pink Posh Friends Facebook group!

Thanks for stopping by and hope to see you soon,
Zsofi