craftykarendesigns: Two for Tuesday

Hi Everyone,

Another Two for Tuesday. This time I'm using the beautiful pansies and mixing both stamped images and die cuts to give the cards some texture. As there is still a lot of white space, it also looks a bit clean and simple too, I hope that you like it. You could try it with any of our individual flower stamp and dies to get the same effect.

Materials

1 piece of card stock for the card base 5 7/8" x 8 1/4" (blackberry bliss/gorgeous grape)

4 pieces of basic white 3 7/8" x 5 5/8"

Scraps of basic white, highland heather, gorgeous grape, old olive, parakeet party, highland heather, gorgeous grape, fresh freesia for the stamping and die cuts

Pansy Dies

Stampin' Cut & Emboss Machine

Pansy Patch stamp set

Old olive ink

Parakeet party ink

fresh freesia ink

Blackberry bliss ink

Highland heather ink

Gorgeous grape ink

Trimmer

Simply scored

Bone folder

Multipurpose adhesive

Basic rhinestones

Paper snips

Dimensionals

Instructions

Score the card base at 4 1/8" and fold and burnish.

These cards started out in a slightly different way, I was just going to stamp the images but I messed up with some of the leaves and ended up cutting around the whole thing and then adding the die cuts over the top.

So you could stamp an arrangement on a piece of white card and if you are happy with it, great, use that piece as your card front. However, I messed up and so cut mine out and mounted it on another piece of white card with some dimensionals.

Then I die cut one of the large pansies in each colour combo and some leaves, in one I used both layers of the leaves and in the other just the main leaf. Adhere the pieces together to make the flower and add over the top of the stamped images and tuck the leaves in and around it.

Stamp the sentiment on the right hand side and add this layer to the card front.

Stamp a sentiment on the remaining pieces of white and adhere to the inside of the card.

Add rhinestones to the centre of the flowers and the cards are complete.

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Happy Crafting,

Karen X

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