Glorious Gardenia

Good evening folks.
I'm here late evening here to announce the start of the latest challenge over at HLS Anything Goes with Dies.
Here is my card using one of my very favourite dies, MB's Glorious Gardenia.



Not  sure why I like it so much but it is my go to flower die. I've used it in all sorts of different ways, so perhaps it's because it so versatile! I only bought the outline die so The background was made by drawing around the leftover from the die cut, then fussy cutting it out of plain white card.
To get the colour on the die, I used my Zig brush pens to wash in some colour onto the petals with some shades of pink then the same with greens onto the leaves. The center of the flowers were glued to the base, leaving the leaves to hover over the backing.
On a separate white panel I washed some more of the pink colour in the shape of the design along with some splatter. A couple of sprigs of die cut Fresh Foliage and Grove Branch completed the sprig. A silver embossed tag from LOTV was slipped under the edge of the sprig and the trimmed panel attached to the base card.
So for more die cutting inspiration please check out the rest of the team here and we'd love to see you in this month's gallery.

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