Layers of Beauty – Lovely Arrangements

Welcome back!  Such a dreary day so, I decided to create something pretty and fresh. 

Today’s challenges: Beautiful Blossoms (#36); Ellibelle’s Garden Party (#11); Facebook’s Colour INKspirations (#201); and bringing all my ideas together with the current Freshly Made (#718) Sketch.

Here is the result:

Steps:

• Card Base: (8½” x 5½” scored at 4¼”) Pretty Peacock cardstock.
• Background Panel: (5¼” x 4”) Gold & White Grid patterned piece of paper from the Regals Distressed Patterns Specialty Designer Series Paper.
  • The Panel was masked off with copy paper on the diagonal and Pretty Peacock ink was added with a Blending Brush.
• Diagonal Accent & Bow: (10”) Gold Shimmer Ribbon, retired but still in my stash set.  (7”) across the Panel and (3”) tied into a simple Knot Bow.
• Decoration – Flowers & Leaves: (5½” x 4¼”) Basic White cardstock.
  • The Floral image from the Lovely Arrangements stamp set, an On-Line Exclusive product, was stamped twice with Versamark and heat-set with Gold Embossing Powder.
  • Using the Fine-Tipped Water Painter, both Poppy Parade and Melon Mambo inks were picked up from the Ink Pad Lid to watercolor the Flowers.
  • The Flowers were then die-cut with the coordinating die from the Lovely Arrangements Dies set.
  • The Leaf image, from the same stamp set, was inked with Pretty Peacock ink and misted with water added to a Stampin’ Spritzer.  The cardstock was also misted before stamping to get the watercolor effect.  After stamping, the stamp was misted again and restamped to get the 2^nd and 3^rd Generation color variations.
  • The Leaves were then die-cut with the coordinating die from the same dies set.
• Sentiment Label: Basic White cardstock scrap.
  • The sentiment, you make my heart smile, from the Layers of Beauty stamp set was stamped with Pretty Peacock ink and then additional color was added with the Blending Brush.
  • The sentiment was then closely fussy-cut with Paper Snips.  The resultant size is (3” x ¼”).

All elements were adhered to the card base to resemble the sketch.  The Flowers and Leaves were arranged along the diagonal with the Flowers popped up with Dimensionals.  The Bow was tucked in with a Mini Glue Dot and the Sentiment was added.

A lovely little card…

Thanks for spending some of your time with me today.  Cheers,  Jolanda!

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