Splendid Swirls And Leane Flowers. Spring Birthday Card.

Hello Bloggers,

Here is my spring colored card today with lots of flowers, embossing and swirls. It's a birthday card for an old lady from Russia. The sentiment is in Russian and it says Happy Birthday. I don't have any Cyrillic letters, so I had to hand write it with a glue pen and use some glitter.

What makes a card almost totally unsendable? The spiral swirls of course! They are even more unsendable than fluffy flowers. So, in my wisdom I used the swirls from the Sue Wilson's Splendid Swirls CED1427 set anyway just because I liked them on the card so much and later spent a lot of time trying to fit them into the envelope in such a way that they stay intact. Quite successfully though! :)

This card is very big - it's a full A4 folded in halves. With all the layers and flowers, it turned out to be too heavy for a regular two-stamp letter, so I had to cheat a bit by creating the visibility of layers out of two sheets only. The outer green frame is literally a 1.5 cm wide frame, the middle cut-out part was embossed separately and used as the main green background. The white sheet in between them is not complete either. A non-crafter will never know :)

Used:

• Die'Sire Embossalicious Embossing Folder Tumbling Leaves - A4 [EF4-TMBL] 
• Marianne Design Lr0248 Creatable Tiny`S Flowers 1
• Craft Dies by Sue Wilson - Finishing Touches Collection - Delicate Fronds CED1426 
• Craft Dies by Sue Wilson - Finishing Touches Collection - Splendid Swirls CED1427 - the spiral swirls come from this set 
• Sizzix Thinlits Die Set Flower Mini Daisy 658407 Susan Tierney-Cockburn - 115665/8407 
• Joy! Crafts 6002/0385 Stencil - Roll up Roses 
• Joy! Crafts Mery`s stencil - Basic 6002/0403 Square
• Die-namics Mini Royal Roses 
• 45.8503 Leane Creatief Lea'bilities Multi Die flower 001 
• 45.8510 Leane Creatief Lea'bilities Multi Die flower 002

Challenges:
CARDS & SCRAP: Challenge april: Flower Power
Crafty Calendar Challenge : 'Anything Goes' with our April Challenge!
ROBYN'S FETISH: CHALLENGE # 311 - "ADD A SENTIMENT" - 4/10/2016
Crafty Gals Corner: Challenge #67 ~ Die Cuts or Punches
Creative Card Crew: 110 - Die Cut
Digi Choosday Crafting Challenge: Week 14 - Anything Goes - Crafting Challenge at Digi Choosday
Double D Challenges: 'YELLOW' A Happy Place To Be
The Crazy Challenge: CCH#220 - Spring is here
Digi Choosday Crafting Challenge: Wk 15 - Emboss It - Crafting Challenge at Digi Choosday
Try it on Tuesday: A Mood Board Challenge theme at Try it on Tuesdays
Crafty Creations Challenges: #313 Stitching - Real or Fake
Moving Along With The Times: 18. Spring Flowers
Where The HeART is.....: Challenge 8 - Sparkle and Bling/Anything Goes

Our Crafty Corner: Challenge 8 - Anything Goes

Blog Craft Passion: Wyzwanie 3/2016 Kwiaty / Challenge 3/2016 Flowers

Open-Minded Crafting Fun Challenges: Monthly Challenge #4 -- Easter / Spring / Pastel Colors

CREATIVE INSPIRATIONS: Challenge 249 - Your Favourite Things! (the spiral swirls from Sue Wilson's Collection - Splendid Swirls CED1427; A4 embossing folders; Joy! Crafts Mery`s stencil - Basic 6002/0403 Square - I adore these stitched labels!; Leane flowers)
Crafting for all Seasons Challenge Blog: Challenge 124 (Top: Sparkle - Die Cuts - Flowers)

Thanks for stopping by,
Lena