SUO Challenge-Things That Fly

     Hello again, it has been a looooong week. You ever have one of those? Everything seemed to come out of nowhere and attack you from all sides. This week it has been a combination of more pain and my depression. Yuck!! I'm not sure if a lot of you know that I suffer from a condition called Degenerative Disc Disease plus a few other back ailments. And one thing that goes hand in hand with chronic pain is depression. So to sum it up I had a bad pain week so my depression was high too. What fun!! Well, enough of that, on to my post.
     Today for you I have a very beautiful card that I made for the Stampin' Up! Only blog

challenge. This challenge was themed #170- Things That Fly. I knew a lot of people would choose the butterflies or the new dragonflies but I wanted something a little different. So I got out my Annual catalog and went through it page by page and made note of all the flying things. I finally decided on the flamingo from the Pop of Paradise stamp set. Next, came a card idea so I headed over to Pinterest and looked around. I picked and chose a few things and came up with my card.
     First, I made my card base by cutting an 8-1/2"x 11" piece of Whisper White cardstock in half to 5-1/2"x 8-1/2". Next, I folded one piece in half and I have my A2 card base of 4-1/4"x 5-1/2". Then, I took a piece of Basic Black and cut it to 4"x 5-1/4" and glued it on top of the Whisper White card base. I then wanted to use a piece of the gold specialty paper from the Pop of Pink DSP (Designer Series Paper) that I had on my desk on this card so I used the Botanical Builder Framelits and die cut the long leaf die on the edge of this paper. I glued it down along the edge of the card base.
     Next, I stamped the flamingo in Flirty Flamingo, of course, on a piece of Whisper

White. I die cut it out with my Stitched Shapes in the largest oval. Then I die cut a scalloped oval in Flirty Flamingo cardstock using the Layering Ovals Framelits. And then I glued these two together. I wanted a little more on this piece so I got out my Gold Foil paper and die cut out three small flowers. I glued them onto the Flamingo piece and then placed rhinestones in the middle of each. I put Stampin' Dimensionals on the back and placed this piece onto my card base.
     Then, I made the flowers in the corner of the card. I started with the Botanical Builder Framelits and die cut two large leaves and two small ones, one large and one small in each color of Pear Pizzazz and Old Olive. I then stamped the vines on them using the Botanical Blooms stamp set with each corresponding color. Next I cut out the flower in Flirty Flamingo cardstock. Then I stacked the leaves onto the card base and glued them down. I used Stampin' Dimensionals to pop up

the flower. I die cut out a flower center using again the Gold Foil paper and glued it onto the flower. On top of that I glued down a gold sequin and then a rhinestone. I then cut a 3-1/2" piece of the Metallic Ribbon available only during Sale-a-Bration which ends March 31st! I folded this slightly off centered and used glue dots to tuck it under the flower.
     Next, I  added my sentiment. I found the one I wanted from the Endless Thanks stamp set and stamped in onto a piece of Whisper White using my Versamark ink pad so I could emboss it. I sprinkled the Gold Emboss powder on top and used my Heat Tool to melt it. After a few seconds it becomes nice and shiny! I then used the Tags & Labels Framelits to die cut out the sentiment and I put this onto my card front using

Stampin' Dimensionals.
     I couldn't leave the inside blank so I used the Pop of Paradise stamp set again and stamped the large leaf in Pear Pizzazz and the smaller leaf in Old Olive. I stamped them a little off the edge for a cool look. And there you have my card.

Here are the supplies I used:

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     Thank you so much for coming to my blog today and checking out my post. I hope you have a great weekend! Hugs, Julie