Mum's birthday card

For Mum's birthday card this year I started with a decoupaged image and a greeting plaque from Papermania's Botanicals Collection to use on an 8x8in card, and went from there.

As the rose in the decoupage had a coral hint to some of the petals, I added a border to match around the base panel to frame it and around the edge of the different layers of the greeting panel.

I use the Tattered Lace embossing folder, Butterfly Garden, as the background and coloured it with Shaded Lilac Distress Ink, to tie in with the butterflies on the  greeting plaque.  I also used the Doily embossing folder from Tattered Lace, but cut around one of the two embossed areas and edged it with the coral pen used earlier.

I die-cut the Demure Butterfly, again by Tattered Lace, coloured it coral and added pearls along the body.  The roses are handmade from the Small and Medium Rose dies by Britannia, and coloured to match the three main colours used.