FUSSY CUT FLOWERS

Have you ever had a sheet (or two) of Designer Series Paper where the images are so huge that you hesitate to use it for anything at all because the grand scale of the images would completely overwhelm whatever you wanted to create? Besides, when you cut the sheet into a smaller size, for example, 4" x 5 1/4", all these beautiful images are reduced to pieces of images. 

The only way I can see to get around this situation is to . . . yes! Fussy cut the beautiful oversized images.

To create this set of six cards, that's exactly what I did. One fine summer day, I sat on my deck with a sheet of this DSP, which, by the way, came from a Sale-A-Bration pack, and snipped away. Ah. Bliss. 

After I'd finished the fussy cutting, I wasn't sure how I wanted to use these lovely floral stems. But, following are the photos of what I finally came up with.

I'm actually not a crafter who combines two very different Designer Series Papers, but I happily discovered that it really worked in this case. The two papers are from the same set of DSP. 

Die cutting the putple layer gave the Rich Razzleberry it that lovely stitched line. Adding a bow made from thick white baker's twine and attached with a mini glue dot gave me an easy-to-put-together set of cards.

I purposely didn't add a sentiment to the card because they can be used for almost any occasion, and I figured that that can be addressed on the inside of the card. 

If you get your hands on a piece of Designer Series Paper with oversized images, how do you work with it? Or do you just add it to your paper stash?

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Count your age by friends, not years.

Count your life by smiles, not tears.

- John Lennon -

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Flowered

Smiles.