Freshly Made Sketches #281

Hello my lovelies!  I hope you all had a good weekend and are having a great day so far!

Today there is another sketch on the Freshly Made Sketches challenge blog and here is the sketch provided by Kim.

At first, I wasn't sure what I should do for the stripes, patterned papers maybe, stencilled stripes, heat embossed stripes, in the end I decided to go with dry embossed stripes made with my scoring board and a stylus.  I don't think it shows very well in the pictures, but I think you will see them better in the close-up at the end.  Here it is (details at bottom).

I dry embossed the stripes straight on to the card base.  Next, I stamped the largest flower and leaves from Altenew's 'Beautiful Day' stamp set, adhered the leaves directly on to the base and popped the flower up on foam for a bit of dimension.  As I haven't used gems in ages, I used a large one for the centre of the flower and two others for balance.  

I finished off with a die-cut 'Hugs'  . . . a Simon one . . . I think?  A quick lick of 'Wink Of Stella' on  the sentiment and a quick spritz of my home-made shimmer spray, and called it done! 

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