Here’s yet another peek at one of the great new products coming soon – the botanical builder framelits dies. It’s perfect for a quick birthday card although I hadn’t completely decided which of the smaller flowers I was going to use so I cut them all out of calypso coral so that I could play with them. Now I have a little pile of  flowers to use. The precision base plate really helped with the intricate shapes as did the new big shot brush which helped pop out the shapes as well as clean up some of the wispy pieces of card. The so saffron flower is cut with just one die and glued onto my very vanilla card with a glue dot – as is the calypso coral flower inner or maybe that should be stamens?

The sentiment is from the Birthday Blossoms set in the annual catalogue (finally, something that you can get now!) and is stamped in calypso coral. I used the same colour as the mat and then glued this to the so saffron card base. Today’s card is finished off by lining the envelope using the envelope liners framelits and a very vanilla envelope.

Here are all the supplies that I used to make the card – even the dies that you can’t purchase until Jaunary 5th unless you become a demonstrator. And why wouldn’t you?! There’s no downside to it that I can see – unless it’s that you lose control of your kitchen table since it gets covered in all sorts of crafting stuff!