February's Elelental Inspiration

As it's the first Friday of the month,  over on the Daring Cardmakers blog today is Elemental Inspiration Picture day. 
Leo has chosen a lovely photo which is light and airy but with the romantic feel you'd probably expect with Valentines day just around the corner! 
We've also got a new Guest Designer working with us this month so I hope you'll head over and pay the blog a visit.

I'd just taken delivery of a parcel of goodies from The Craftz Boutique (soooooo sad they are closing :() - they always wrap up your goodies in pretty tissue paper, and on this occasion it was a zebra print, wasn't it? So one element just chose itself!
 
Apart from the zebra print pattern, I also chose  to incorporate the heart in a square picture frame, some text and the Orchid, with that fabulous shot of bright pink.

Here's my card:

 Info:

I cut a square frame using a nested die set (Tonic)  covered it with some of the zebra print tissue paper, and left it to dry

I couldn't find "the right" (you know how it is) sort of text print paper, so I decided to have a go at making my own, and came up with this, which I printed out onto Bazzill Diamond White card

Next I made the inner, silver frame using a die from the Heart nested set by Die'Namics and some dull silver card

Adding some scraps of chipboard for dimension I adhered the frame over the text and then fixed the zebra frame over the whole thing

The card blank is a 15cm square with a square of Bazzill Bling Black card for the mat for the frame section

As I couldn't find a suitable die or punch, I hand cut the pieces for the orchids (which is why they aren't particularly good) from scraps of card and glued in place to finish

That's all for this time, I hope you like it.
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