Christine's Creative Nook

Hello My Crafty Friends! My card today I created for a dear friend and former co-worker that just lost her husband. It is a 5 X 7 card with basket weave background.  Susan did this background technique on her Susan's Garden Club 2 Facebook Live February 5th which is found here .  I chose to cut 9 strips  to cover the card front 8 to weave and 1 I cut pieces to fill the gaps.  I used the Love-in-a-Mist S3-559 from Spellbinders Susan's Garden latest release Poet's Garden .  I also used Gingko S4-1278   from the Victorian Garden Release and the berry branch for the  Arrowwood Viburnum S3-516 from the Winter's Grace Release.  the vessel for my flowers is a die cut from my stash.  I used Spellbinders Essential Modern Ovals S4-1266 (2nd and 3rd smallest sizes) for the sentiment. I shaped the vessel with my fingers to give it a curve added a couple dimensional tabs lower center on the back then added glue on very edge of both sides and attac...