Beautiful Blossoms July Challenge

Hi friends!

It's time for a new challenge at Beautiful Blossoms Challenge Blog! Our one month long challenge is "Anything Floral Goes / Inspired by the Photo". The photo, this time a stunning lotus image, is below for you to admire!

I didn't have any lotus flowers in my stash but this gave me the perfect opportunity to play with a lily 3d embossing folder and matching coloring stencils from Altenew -this was such a favorite when I got it and i can't believe it's only the second time I'm using it!! The sentiment is by Altenew as well and I used it with card stock colors that brought the inspiration photo's colors to my card. Love how this turned out and I would have never used this color of card stock if there wouldn't have been this challenge... So one's got to love a good challenge!!

I hope to see you all joining us with your floral creations. 

 

Having Fun with Die Cuts!

Hi friends!

I'm not the best at using leftovers of projects... I've had blossoms, vines and leaves from Spellbinders Regal Blooms die set on my desk for weeks... Now I finally decided to put them to good use! 

I paired them floral dies with the super cute dog dies from Regal Pair die set, a sentiment from Sending Sunshine Sentiments stamp set and a Trellis Window Die from Hero Arts. The patterned paper is something I found from my old old stash of patterned papers... No idea where it came from but I love it! 

I played with many beautiful shades from Spellbinders Colorwheel Carstock to get the look I wanted... And I did add a lot of gold to the card with gold sequins, gold paint spatters and gold speciality card stock in the chains and pillows of the doggies. Love gold and pink together! 

I hope this post finds you enjoying summer. Heartfelt wishes! 

I'd like to join:

Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge: 4 legged friends

A Cut Above: Anything Goes

613 Avenue Create: Anything Goes

Tic Tac Toe Challenge: Patterned Paper, Die Cut, 3d (plenty of dimension in my card, I hope that's ok for 3d!)

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Gardeners Know All the Dirt -Mixed Media Tri-Fold Greenhouse

Hello friends!

I'm here sharing a birthday card I made for a friend: a tri-fold greenhouse card created with dies from Hero Arts and a fun oldie but goodie sentiment from Jane's Doodles. 

The main dies (the greenhouse, pots and greenery) all come from the April My Monthly Hero Kit (also available as the Superhero version with even more dies ). The little snail comes from the fun snail mail themed January Kit and the the May Superhero Kit with the large birthday die (third layer of my card) is also still available! 

I wanted to make a card using the older kits because I know many have of you missed out on the July Kit, it sold out in a heartbeat... So it might be fun to look at the older kits that are amazing to create with as well!

Here are two photos of the card but I highly recommend you to watch the video above for catching all the details. I've shared it also as a reel in Instagram where the quality and detail are better. Click HERE

How to create the pots

I created my own metallic looking pots with red and orange cardstock along with gold card stock. After die cutting the pots I first smudged some black ink to them for "dirt"and then I rubbed gold and silver waxes on them with no specific plan or caution. I simply used my fingers. Final step was to take black water color to a brush and with almost a dry brush to add some black color on top of the wax. This worked very well, way better than my original inking! If you watch the video you'll clearly see the finish in the pots.

Greenery 

The greenery is cut from two shades of green card. After gluing it down I wasn't too happy with the look and ended up using a couple of green Copic markers for adding smudges and texture to the leaves to make them look more lively and to match the mixed media feel of the pots better. 

Die cutting tip!

The plant hanger in the card front and the birthday sentiment inside the card are cut from brown card stock that has tiny golden leaves printed on it. However, when used for intricate die cutting, you can't see the leaf pattern at all but just fun variety in the finish with some gold here and there. 

It's worth checking out your patterned papers and special card stocks and have a think how they might work for intricate die cuts! 

The card design is inspired by THIS VIDEO although I did make my design a tri-fold. 

With my card I'd like to join:

A Cut Above: Anything Goes with Dies

Daisy Chain Challenge: Birthday 

Allsorts Challenge: Anything Goes

Just Us Girls: Use Dies

Time Out Challenges: Photo Inspiration (windows)

Thank you for popping by! 

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