Kia ora Koutou
I would like to take the time to wish everyone a healthy, safe and prosperous Happy New Year with lots of time for crafting therapy.
Today it is New Years Day in New Zealand and I have a gorgeous lilac and silver card to share with you today. I really love how Becca Feeken and former Amazing Paper Grace Creative Team Member Rajni Chawla mix and match layering dies and also snip dies to create a totally different look. Here I have used three different die sets – Fluted Classics Rectangles Dies, Postage Edge Rectangles Dies and Scalloped Symphony Notecard Dies to create a very elegant base for the snipped Marvelous Medallion dies. The flowers are from the Marvelous Medallion dies and off course I had to add a sweet little butterfly. The sentiment is from Beccy’s Place Wren stamp set. (It wasn’t until after I completed the card that I realised that perhaps the sympathy sentiment was not a great choice for the start of the year but it suited the card and it is always handy to have spare sympathy cards on hand – what do you think?).
Dies were provided by Amazing Paper Grace for today’s creations.
My Project
For my project I have created a shaped card base using three large Postage Edge Rectangles Dies – two in white cardstock and one in silver. I adhered the two white rectangles together with the right sides out and then scored at 3/4″ along one of the short sides to create a hinge. This hinge was glued to the back of the silver rectangle. I then layered an ivory plain layer with the large rectangle from the Fluted Classics Rectangles Dies in lilac cardstock. I die cut the large scalloped edge slimline die from the Scalloped Symphony Notecard Dies out of silver cardstock. I cut this in half and trimmed about another inch of both sides before gluing the sides together to fit inside the lilac patterned rectangle. To finish the layers I added another plain layer of ivory card and the Fluted Classics Rectangles Dies in Lilac cardstock.
I die cut two medallions out – with the shadow from silver cardstock and the top decorative layer from Lilac cardstock. I then trimmed the outer edges and added them to the top and bottom of the inner rectangle as shown.
I die cut a small postage rectangle from the Postage Edge Rectangles Dies out of silver cardstock. I layered a plain layer of lilac cardstock on top. I stamped the sentiment from the Blue Wren stamp set from Beccy’s Place in Majestic Violet ink on ivory cardstock. I die cut this out using the smallest plain die from the Postage Edge Rectangles Dies and adhered it to the top of the lilac cardstock. This was then added to the front of the card to hide the edges of the medallion dies using foam tape.
I die cut the flowers using the soft flower shaping paper and coloured them in the centres with Grassy Knoll ink and the edges using Wisteria ink. I soaked these in water and then shaped them using a small ball stylus. For the larger flowers I have done two layers and for the smaller ones I have done a single layer. A small green wire pollen was inserted into the centres of the flowers.
I die cut the leaves from green cardstock and these were added to the top left of the sentiment. I trimmed the wires from the flowers and then added the flowers over the leaves.
The butterfly from the Butterfly Bliss Garden Shutters Dies were made by using vellum coloured with Kitsch Flamingo and Shaded Lilac inks and then silver accents and a black body were added to complete the butterfly. The butterfly was then added to the bottom right of the sentiment.
To finish I added some silver pearls around the sentiment and to highlight the Marvelous Medallion dies.
I will have a full video tutorial on my YouTube channel shortly on how I have made this card and the flowers.
Amazing Paper Grace Products Used:
Die of the Month February 2022 Marvelous Medallion Dies
Fluted Classics Rectangles Dies
Scalloped Symphony Notecard Dies
Butterfly Bliss Garden Shutter Dies
Other Products Used:
Heartfelt Creations Deluxe Flower Shaping Paper
Creative Expressions Pearl Card – Ivory
Spellbinders Essentials Cardstock – Onyx, Rainforest
Concord & 9th Cardstock – Lilac
Rajni Chawla’s Flavourite Vellum
Dress My Craft Soft Floral Paper
Dress My Craft Green Wire Pollens
Bearly Art Glue
Foam Tape
Pink Fresh Studio Silver Pearls
Pink Fresh Studio inks – Grassy Knoll, Wisteria
Distress Oxide inks – Kitsch Flamingo, Shaded Lilac
Ranger Archival ink – Majestic Violet
Small ball stylus
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