Paper pieced florals

Good Morning everyone

I bought this Lisa Horton die back in the black friday sales, so this was its first outing. As previously mentioned i had alot of thin strips of paper left after doing my batch of exploding insert cards, I put them both together and had several hours of fun, first die cutting all the little strips and the the little pieces and then paper piecing them all onto a card. 

4x6" white card base.  After cutting a pile of the papers i picked out some solid colours to use for the frames and mats - in this case I die cut the frame from purple card and matted onto a ochre cardstock.  I then paper pieced the little strips into place.  Using the little square dies that came with the set i die cut from white card and the ochre and then stamped the sentiment with dark blue ink.  Glitter glue highlights to finish.  

This one uses the same colours as the first one, just reversed and some gems added.  Sentiment stamps are from clearly besotted and the perfect size 

These next 2 i used pink and blue card for the matting and frames and the more bluey papers

I think i will have to make some Christmas versions in time to use up some of the off cuts of Christmas papers.  Once all the die cutting was done it was quite therapeutic to sit in the evening paper piecing them all - I managed to make 12 in all, so lots of paper snippets used up.

This shows the papers left over from the exploding insert cards i made.  

Items Used:

Lisa Horton die 'diagonal square background' 'LHCCD073'

Clearly besotted sentiment stamps 'saying stuff' & 'speaking out'

The works paper pads 'watercolour feelings' 'vintage floral'

Thank you for popping by.  I hope you have a good week.  Hugs Emmaxxx

Id love to enter the first card in the following:

http://getcreativechallenges.blogspot.com/2023/01/117-something-new.html - new die

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http://craftycalendarchallenge.blogspot.com/2023/01/january-2023-challenge-add-sentiment.html

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https://craftycatzweeklychallenge.blogspot.com/2023/01/challenge-621-anything-goes.html

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https://pixiessnippetsplayground.blogspot.com/2023/01/challenge-446.html