Sweet Sister

I made this card for my Sister and was able to even hand deliver it, I bought these dies at the Scrapbook convention and was waiting to use them until my sisters card.  I started cutting out all these shapes with yellow papers, thinking I would use them for the flowers when I decided to check out the video on how to put them together because I couldn't figure it out and realized those were the bases for the tiny flowers you make, so here I was with all these yellow pieces I had cut out, I put them aside and started cutting them all over again in green this time, shaping them so that the flowers would be puffed up in a circle, I still wanted to use yellow for the bigger flowers so I cut the little flowers out of purple, after gluing them all on I took a extra fine purple sharpie and added center dots to all the flowers.

The basket die cut was bought at the same time, I did a touch of inking to the basket. There are little leaves die cuts too and I cut a few of them to put on the end of the branches. Then I started thinking of what flower I wanted to use for the bigger flowers and thought, I should just start shaping those pieces I had already cut to see if I could make a flower from them, and I think they turned out pretty cute. I added a couple of them to the bottom of the basket to kind of ground it. I also punched some bigger leaves out of a different color green paper to go with the bigger flowers.
 I shaped the basket with my biggest stylus and added some foam tape behind so that it rounded out in the center and glued the sides directly to the paper.  Added the tag and gem and I was done.

Elizabeth Craft designs - Garden notes- Gathering basket die and Countryscapes Mini Botanicals dies
Martha Stewart - leaf punch (veins using stylus)
Our daily bread designs - Mini tag sentiment and mini tag die
Ms. Sparkle & co. - Marble paper
Paper Studio - Gem

Can you quite believe it is July already.  Hope this month is off to a good start for you,
Thanks so much for dropping by,

Connie