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Be Happy - Flowers, butterflies on ornate background square card - Day 221 of my 365 day challenge

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Be Happy - Flowers, butterflies on ornate background square card - Day 221 of my 365 day challenge Hi Craft addicts! Today's card (for day 221 of my 365 day challenge) is a more ornate one using Paper Boutique and Mel Heaton dies, along with Sweet Dixie and Rare Earth stamps. To find out how I made it just read on!  Using one of the lovely die backgrounds from Paper Boutique, I cut it out using Lynda Chapman's black card. I then measured the inside area and cut a piece of white stamping card to fit and stamped the flowers at the bottom of it using Versamark ink and heat set them with white embossing powder. I let it dry for a bit and then used a mix of Tim Holtz Distress Inks to ink over them using green for the grass, blues, pinks and purples for the sky. Again I left it to dry a bit and then used a sheet of kitchen roll to remove the excess  ink so that they stood out more. I then attached it to the middle of the black layer using Cosmic Shimmer PVA glue. ...