In order to balance out the busy papers, I also cut a whole bunch of the flowers from various single colour cardstocks, metallic paper, glitterstock and I layered them so that each flower had one layer of patterned paper and the other layer of a solid colour. Once I was happy with them all I used Nuvo Deluxe adhesive to glue them together; putting them under something to keep the pressure and contact, to allow for the best adherence. (Especially where something is being glued down onto glitter paper for example.

I cut two panels down to be 4×5.25inch, one deep maroon, one navy blue. I laid out an arrangement of flowers to go down the edges of each panel, but I did decide to make each panel have the images on the opposite side. (It looks better in the photos that way ???).

I like the look of the panels being offset on the white card base, with the flowers & leaves going over onto the white space.

I used the sentiment strips die set from Altenew to cut my sentiment from the same blue or maroon cardstock, then stuck that onto some of the patterned paper that was pale and light enough to be easily read.

I finished both designs with a variety of gorgeous sequins from a Catherine Pooler mix.