Crafty Meraki Floral New Year's Card.

Good morning!  This month has flown by shockingly fast, and today I'm sharing my final guest design post over on the Crafty Meraki Blog.  You can find an extra detailed post over there, but I'm super excited about this card, so I'm sharing it here as well.  

You may not automatically think of flowers when you think of New Year's cards, but any happy new year of mine will most definitely be filled with flowers, so I chose that for my theme. 

I really love that the Gilded Holiday Expressions Press-Tacular Plate has sentiments that carry you all the way through the new year, so I used them to hot foil a sentiment for my card. 

Next I pulled out the beautiful Peony Artisan Flora Dies, and die cut a bunch of flowers, buds, and leaves.  After blending ink on them, I followed the assembly guide included in the die packaging to put the pieces together.

I popped up the sentiment onto a cream colored A2 card base, and then I started arranging the flowers and leaves around it.

After everything was adhered to the card, I used scissors to trim off any over-hanging pieces.  

Finally I sprinkled gold pearls in various sizes throughout the card. 

I'm a firm believer that flowers are good any time of year, and I hope you've enjoyed seeing this card come together.  The Peony Artisan Flora Dies are pretty magical in my opinion and really do create the most beautiful flowers. 

Thanks so much for stopping by today!  I hope that you had a blessed Christmas and hope that those blessings extend throughout the new year.