Best Wishes Floral Card.

Hi all, Its Jen here! Every month I look forward to sharing one of my projects with all and this month I have a totally gorgeous card to show you.

To be honest, I was in a bit of a creative slump! So when I started making this card I had no idea where I was going with it. However I perservered and in the end everything seemed to just fall into place.

Products Used

Bouquet Maker 5x7 Stamps – LDRS Creative

Rounded Rectangle Frame Dies – LDRS Creative

Elegant Sentiment Word Dies – LDRS Creative

Watermark Emboss Pad – LDRS Creative

I began making this card by creating a pretty floral patterned background panel. For this I trimmed down a panel of teal card to 4 1/4 by 5 1/2 inches. Then prepped the surface with anti-static powder and stamped some of the floral and foilage images from the Boquet Maker stamp set in Watermark Ink. Once I was happy with the design I sprinkled on some clear embossing powder and heat set it with a heat gun. 

Next I used some dark teal ink to ink blend around the edges of the panel to add some depth and creating a spotlight for the main focal point of the card. I also splatterd on some of the same ink to add a little more texture. Then I trimmed the panel down by 1/8 of an inch on all four sides.

The focal point of the card was created by die cutting the third largest Rounded Rectangle die from the teal patterned panel, then cutting the second largest from some white cardstock and layering them together. I adhered the teal patterned panel to a US A2, top folding note card and added the layered Rounded Rectangle frames to the centre.

Next I stamped one of the largest floral images from the Bouquet Maker Stamp Set and some of the leaves in black ink and coloured them in with alcohol markers. I love adding little dot details and highlights in white gel pen for more texture. The images were arranged onto the card front towards the bottom left, somewhat following the curve of the rectangle frames.

I die cut the Best Wishes sentiment from the Elegant Sentiment Dies, 3 times from white cardstock and once from mirror gold cardstock. Then I used liquid glue to stack them together before adhering them to their respective shadow layers, that were also cut from white cardstock.

To finish off I added a few gold pearls, which ties in with the shiny gold of the sentiment. So there you have it! I card that just kind of developed out of nowhere!

I hope you like it and I'll catch you all again next month, bye!