It's Your Birthday by Jo Simons

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Hello lovely people! Happy New Year! I hope your Christmas and New Year season was filled with love, peace and good health!

Today I have a couple of cards to share with you. I made them both using the lovely new Clavelina Layers dies from the new Floral layers collection.

Here's how I made my flowers

When I die cut my flowers out I tried to arrange them in a nice way on my cardstock as this was going to be used as a stencil to create the background of my second card.

Once I have my petals cut, I then stamped them with a script stamp.

Using a sponge dauber and an inkpad of your choice I then gently sponged around the edges and also the centers of each petal.

I then layered them and also gave each petal a little pinch to give them some dimension.

I then added them to the front of my card. I need some leaves to break it a little but I didn't want to take a way from the flowers so I have used the negative of the Strawberry leaf die. Just a little bit of greenery to bring it all together. Finished with some tiny gemstones.

For my second card I used the negative from the petals I cut for the first card to use as a stencil. Using a couple of ink pads of your choice and sponge daubers I gently rubbed some ink through the stencil. I added some white gel pen accents and some gemstones and finished by mounting my stamped sentiment onto the perfectly Petite Doily - Aspirational.