The Greetery {Petit Four Birthday}

 Hello and welcome, friends!  Back in February, Pinterest decided it wanted to show me all kinds of pretty images featuring tea sets and petit fours! Ha ha! I obliged and saved a few because as soon as I saw those pretty petti fours, I KNEW I wanted to try using the Curio Confections Die to make some paper versions! I also knew that the Fine China suite of products would be the perfect companion!

To begin, I used the Fine China Hot Foil with Champagne foil for the plates. I used the Fine China Die + Stencil to cut out the plates and then added soft color with the stencils. I took all of my color cues from the pretty image that I had saved and the china was pale pink and white with touches of blue. Now, don’t make the same mistake I did; I forgot that the pierced circle detail doesn’t actually CUT a circle out, too! Woops! I had stamped the circle rose images on a separate piece of cardstock and was thinking I could use that circle piece to cut them out, but no, it is just the pierced detail. Instead, I used the pierced detail on the larger plate and then simply used a circle punch to punch out the rose detail piece and glued it to the plate.

For the smaller plate, I used a larger punch and popped it up using foam squares. Before I added it to the plate, I stamped the sentiment in black ink using the Fine China Stamp Set.  I set all of the plates aside, including the tiny one and got to work on the petit fours.

Normally I die cut things like this from white cardstock and then use ink to color them, but in order to achieve the desired effect, I cut them from regular colored cardstock. I chose a pale pink, aqua, and lilac and used a bright gold cardstock for the paper liners. I used foam squares to pop the petit fours up on the liners to give them dimension.

Each of the petit fours got a tiny cluster of flowers using the Winter Medley Die. Of course, the real version had flowers made from icing so I added a dot of white Nuvo Drops to the center of each flower to achieve that same look. I don’t know about you, but I don’t use my drops as much as I used to, so it’s always nice to have an excuse!

Once all of the elements were ready to go, I got to work assembling the card. I added a touch of aqua ink around the edges of a white panel measuring 4 by 5 ¼ inches. I layered the plates on a diagonal and then added the petit fours here and there. The smallest plate is tucked in the corner and I simply removed the excess with scissors. I used the Flappable Stencil to decorate the envelope and then used another sentiment from the Fine China stamp set to tie it all together. The entire panel is added to a pale pink top-folding card base using foam squares. I really had a lot of fun making these petit fours and I can’t wait to try using them again for other projects. It’s always nice to stretch your supplies for multiple uses! Thanks for joining me today!