Take a 177mm (7”) square white card blank and trim it 162mm square.

Cut the following for your layers –

Kraft card – 154mm square ands 134mm square

White card – 130mm square

Patterned paper – 1 piece straight from the pad and another cut to 124mm square

You don’t have to go with my choice of patterned paper here – any from the pad would work.

Cut one from kraft card.

Cut one from Ballet Pink card.

Cut one from patterned paper – we just want the waste bit here so keep the frame for another project.

Cut one ‘dream’ outside edge from kraft card.

Cut one ‘dream’ outside edge from Ballet Pink card then cut the inside edge into it.

So this is the flower die and it makes gorgeous flowers. But I wanted to use it as a bow. So cut one each of the larger pieces in white and kraft and two of the little petals in patterned paper as shown.

Take a blending sponge and some brown ink and ink up the edges of the patterned paper. I used Soft Suede ink which is part of the Woodland Walk trio but if you don’t have this, any brown ink would be fine.

Not everybody is a fan of inked edges, I know that, and I wasn’t either for years. But now I just cannot help myself sometimes!! But hey, if this is not your thing then just skip this step.

Mat the patterned papers as shown. These have just been stuck straight down onto the mats, no dimensional pads just yet. Unless you want to of course.

Now for the dimensional pads. Stick the larger bit onto your card blank.

Now stick the smaller kraft card square onto the card with dimensional pads.

And now stick the smaller patterned mat onto the card. I didn’t use dimensional pads for this – I just stuck it straight down.

Now stick the pink frame onto the kraft outside edge die cut as shown…..

… and then add the centre piece.

I did say that there was a little bit more cutting and here it is. Cut the frame into some white card as shown here but if you can, leave the pieces in. We are going to do some paper piecing and it’s a nightmare if you remove everything.

TIP – leave everything on the cutting plate and very carefully peel back the die and the die cut to leave all the residue on the plate. That way all the pieces will be there and you can see what should go where.

Now stick the white pieces onto the frame as shown. You could also use the mirror card in the kit for this as it would look lovely. I’ve only just thought of that – didn’t occur to me at the time!!

Now take a glue pen and fill in the other bits on the frame then add some glitter.

Stick the finished frame onto the card using dimensional pads.

Now stick the 2 sentiment die cuts together.

As we did when making the frame, paper piece the letters in white card then get your glue pen and go around the outside of the sentiment and add a bit of glitter.

TIP – see the bits of glitter on there where they shouldn’t be? Just get a cheap make up brush and dust them away once the glue has dried.

Now for the bow. Layer up as shown and stick down but only apply the glue at the very inside edges because we want the outside edges to stick up in a minute.

Now take a small bit of left over patterned paper and cut a narrow strip and stick it round the centre, meeting at the back. Add dots of glue and glitter to male spots on the white bits then once dry, gently lift up all the layers using a craft pick or the edge of your scissors.

Nearly finished – you just need to stick down the bow and then embellish your card with some beautiful Nuvo drops.