Hello everyone! Today I’m bringing you a card made with a very versatile digistamp set.
This set has flowers – solid and outlined. And leaves to fill out your bouquet. Let me show you how I made my card! I first started with arranging my flowers in a pleasing bouquet. I used 4 different flowers and repeated one. I made them different sizes and turned and flipped them! The joys of digital stamping! I printed off my floral arrangement and sentiment – which came from the Just Butterflies digital stamp set. I printed this out onto hot press watercolor paper.
I had already planned to fussy cut the image but I was unsure at this point about the sentiment. So I cut the sentiment away from the flowers so I could paint the flowers. I decided to use Karin Markers. I chose 2-color blends for 4 flowers using the yellow blend twice..
I started with my Blue/Purple flower. I scribbled color out onto my glass mat and picked it up with a damp paint brush after wetting the area with clean clear water.
I moved onto my yellow flowers next. These were Yellow and Red Violet for shading.
The Pink/Orange one was next.
And the Magenta/Purple one was last.
The leaves were the last thing that I painted. I used a mix on each leaf of Lime Green, Dark Green, Purple, Yellow and Orange.
While I was waiting for that to dry I die cut my sentiment with a fish-tailed banner die.
And I colored in the letter with a Pentel Sparkle Pop Pen in Gold. This gold pen is actually a sparkly gold pen – not just metallic gold. I fussy cut the bouquet leaving a small white border. I prepared a white mini slimline card base that when folded measures 3″ x 6″. Using a die from the Big & Little Chain Rectangle Mini Slimline Dies I cut another white panel. Using a brush stripe stencil from my stash I stenciled the stripes using Antique Linen Distress Ink. I then assembled all of my card parts.
I adhered the stenciled pattern onto my card base. After trimming my sentiment on the left side I aligned it with the tiny dot detail of the stencil. I knew my fish-tailed end would get covered. I wanted to fill in the bigger holes in the stencil with something, but like the stenciling, I wanted it to be neutral. I used very tiny black gems – I get these in the fingernail art section on Amazon. I really liked how they made the base look.
I popped up my flower focal with foam and that completed my card!
I hope you enjoyed today’s card project! I really liked thinking beyond what I normally do. It often brings unexpected joy!
Thanks so much for stopping by today!
Betsy
