Sketch becomes a card...with Creative Charms

I tried out my super simple card sketch and found that I could make a card in less than five minutes.  It is very easy when you work from a plan.

 

For this card I used these beautiful sparkled flowers from Creative Charms.  Here is a LINK to the page where you can see them on the Creative Charms website.

This was my sketch.  I decided to change it a bit by rounding two corners of each of the three small squares.  I did not need to add a brad or gem to the centers of the flowers since they were already sparkled.

 

The sentiment is cut with the "With Gratitude" Cuttlebug embossing and die set.  I first cut the words in cardstock in the same shade of lilac as the small squares.  To add a bit more sparkle, I cut the phrase again in glitter cardstock.

I layered the glittered sentiment on top of the plain cardstock, offsetting it slightly lower and to the right.  This is a good way to work with words that don't have a shadow available on a Cricut cartridge as well.  By offsetting the words you get a "sun shadow" effect and still get the added detail that conventional layers would give you.

 

The view from above shows the extra dimension added by the layers. I attached the sparkled flowers with glue dots.  Be sure to keep track of the tiny dot for the "i."   I put a dot of glue on the card and then carefully place the dot in the right spot.

Here is one more view of the card.  It is very simple which allows the beautiful flowers to stand out.  

I will be sharing some more embellishments from Creative Charms - they have asked me to do some designs for them and have provided me with some lovely samples to work with.  

The butterfly brads I used for this card, also came from Creative Charms.  Here is a LINK to the post about this card.

I have a question for you...   If you received a card with these flowers and you didn't want to save the card, would you take the flowers off before recycling the card so you could use them again?  Just curious....