Sweet Botanicals Card

 Welcome fellow crafters and flower lovers, I am so happy to see you and excited to share with you my new Sweet Botanicals #5130 Digital Stamp Set inspired by the mood board for our Beautiful Blossoms Challenge.   I love the vibrant colors.

    This is a 7"x5" card.  I would like to get you started with sizing and coloring the beautiful image of Sweet Botanicals Digital Stamp Set available at my shop on Etsy. 

  Size the image to 5-1/4"x3" and print on Hammermill 100 lb. White Coverstock.

 

Color your image as desired.   I chose to use Copic markers.

      I used:  

Y15,  Y17,  YR12,  YR14 on the lg. bloom

RV00,  RV02,  Pink Multiliner for the Rosebuds

RV00,  B00,  YR01 on Buds & Sm. Flowers

E30,  E33 on centers

YG61,  YG63,  YG67, Olive Multiliner on leaves.

W3 on shadows.

The supply list you will need:

5"x7" Cardbase and a 5"x7" Bright orange rectangle.   A 4-5/8"x6-5/8" Hot Pink rectangle.  Center the Pink on the Orange and adhere to the cardbase with the fold at the top.

Using the Large Amazon Metal Nesting Cutting Die to cut-out the "Sweet Botanicals" image.  Center and adhere to the Pink.

Using a small brush, apply glitter glue to the edges of the flower petals as shown.

Using the sentiment die, cut one in orange and one in the pink.  Adhere the Pink sentiment on the orange and off set just a small bit.   Then adhere the sentiment to the lower left of the image.

To embellish, cut 6 small squares and apply glitter glue to the front.  Let dry and adhere 3 in the upper left and 3 in the lower right as shown.    Wrap some orange baker's Cord twice around the fold and tie a bow.

OPTIONAL:  I always like to decorate the backside.  Using the small Amazon Metal Nesting Cutting Die,  Cut one in Pink and one in Orange.  Run the Orange through the Pink, lay flat and adhere to the backside with a name plaque as shown.

I hope you enjoyed this bright and fun summer time creation.  You can find this Image on Etsy.

I will be sharing this  "Sweet Botanicals" with Beautiful Blossoms.  Hope to join you again soon!

Hugs,

Jan

I am sharing with:

Beautiful Blossoms Challenge

Heirloom Roses Card

 Welcome fellow crafters and flower lovers!  I am so excited that you stopped by to share a part of your day with me.  This spring I was so inspired by my garden- my Knockout Roses went absolutely crazy!  Using Beautiful Blossom's Color Mood Board and the roses from my garden I created my NEW Heirloom Roses 5125J Digital Stamp Set available at my shop on Etsy.

 

These are the roses in my yard... awe inspiring!  I invite you to come along on my journey through the roses. 

They are just beautiful!!  

This is suggested as a 5"x7" card.  

I started this card going in one direction and ended up going a totally different direction after browsing through my stash.  Confined to home after my surgery, I'm discovering "stash goodies" that I had forgotten about!

You will need my Heirloom Roses 5125J  Digital Stamp Set.  Size the Roses to           5-5/8"x3-1/2".  I placed in a 5"x7" rectangle.   Copy and Paste the roses and place in the lower right corner.  You may need to rotate a bit to get it to fit.  Print on Hammermill® White 100lb. Coverstock.

Color your images as desired.  Everyone has their own favorite medium, mine is COPIC® Markers.

I chose a pink, peach and cream color for my roses:

Pink - RV00,  RV custom (50%RV00-50% RV02),  RV02 and RV55

Peach- R20,  R21,  R22

Cream - E50, E51, E53

Leaves - YG61, YG63, YG67

Some of the supplies I found in my stash for this project are as follows:

FSC® -Pretty Posey  (I liked for it's lattice effect and embossing.)

Core'dinations®  - Sugar-n-Spice  &  Pink

Small Pearl Mesh

(3) Medium Pearl halves

3/4" Pink Ribbon  (about 8")

1/2" Lace

Sentiment Die (I chose "Hello")

Cut a 5"x7" rectangle of FSC® -Pretty Posey for your card front.

Adhere the 1/2" lace centered on the 3/4" ribbon.

Adhere the ribbon & lace combo at 1" from the bottom of the FSC® -Pretty Posey to allow for the sentiment.  Be sure to wrap the ends of the ribbon & lace around to the back and adhere.   LET DRY!

Fussy cut both colored images.  One is to remain intact.  One is to be cut into parts as shown.

Wanting to give this image a 3D effect like a fresh bouquet, adhere one layer of foam tape to the backside of the Pink Rose and two layers of foam tape to the Cream Rose.

Carefully align the images and adhere as shown.

Adhere the FSC® -Pretty Posey rectangle to the front panel of your 5"x7" cardbase using EZ Tear® Tape.

Adhere your 3-D colored image along the ribbon & lace, offset to the right as shown.  Remember you still need room for your sentiment.

Cut the mesh pearls apart and adhere one at each of the crosses on the section using Bearly Art® Precision Glue above the ribbon as shown.

Adhere the three (3) medium half Pearls in the lower right corner as shown.

Cut two (2) of your sentiments:  One (1) of the Core'dinations® - Sugar-n-Spice and One (1) of the Core'dinations® - Pink.

Adhere one of the sentiments slightly offset of the other using Beary Art® Precision Glue and adhere in the lower left of the card front as shown.

I like my cards to have that something a little special...  as an option I use some of the scraps, additional parts, etc. to decorate the backside of my cards.  I also add a name badge as shown.

I hope you enjoyed this journey through my rose garden.  I know it made me feel better having the opportunity to share this beautiful spring day with you. 

I hope you will join us again at Beautiful Blossoms Challenge and share your delightful bouquets with us.

Hugs,

Jan    

I would like to share my Heirloom Roses with the following:

https://beautifulblossomschallenge.blogspot.com/

Marigolds 'n' Berries Card

Welcome fellow crafters and flower lovers to my blog, I want to thank you for stopping by and sharing a part of your day with me.  This month I was inspired to draw Marigold N' Berries Digital Stamp Set for my Etsy Shop.  The rich colors of the "Beautiful Blossoms Mood Board" for this month brought these images to life... 

Suggested card size is 5"x7".  My Marigolds 'n' Berries stamp set can be found on my Etsy Shop.

I started this image using the Berry stem.

Mirror reversed the image, sized it to 7-3/4"

and angled it.  I drew a whiteout block on 

the lower 1/3rd of the stem.   Then use the

Marigolds 'n' Berries image, size to 8-1/4",

angle slightly over the stem as shown.

Print on Hammermill® 100lb. White Coverstock.

Color your images as desired.  I chose to use

Copic® Markers in the "Beautiful Blossoms Mood Board" colors.

Marigold stems and leaves:

       G12,   YG61,   YG63,   BG18

Marigold Flowers:

       Y11,   Y13,   Y15,   Y19,   R37

Berries:

        BG11,   BG13,   BG15,   BG18

Berry leaves:

       G12,   BG70,   BG72,   Bg75

                                                                           

 Cut the image to fit a 5"x7" card front.

  

My secret to finding the right portion of

an image I want to use is:  I cut a 5"x7"

rectangle window in the center of a piece 

of cardstock and move it around until I

am satisfied and lightly draw the rectangle

around the image I want to use.  Then cut 

it out.  I keep it hanging next to my desk

for quick access.

About 1" in from the right edge using a lead pencil, lightly draw a guideline.

Using an X-acto knife, carefully cut around  

any parts of the image to the right of the line.

this is to enable you to slide your border die

under. 

Depending on the border die you choose

to use you may need to re-align and cut 

from other end in order to cut the full 7".

I am using 5in. length 4 pc. Flower Edge

Embossing® metal dies from my stash.

Using your 5"x7" cardbase,  (Sorry pic is backwards) Trim 3/4" off of the front panel

of the cardbase.Using your 5"x7" cardbase,  (Sorry pic is backwards) Trim 3/4" off of the front panel

of the cardbase.

Open the cardbase and adhere a 1-1/4"x7"

rectangle of DCWV® Double side Teal card-stock to the interior back panel outer edge.

Flip the cardbase,  align and adhere the

colored image to the front panel of the

cardbase as shown. 

                                                                            Using DCWV® Double-Sided Cardstock - Teal

and a sentiment of your choosing.  Cut and adhere to the front panel.

I used a "Thank You" die from my stash.

OPTIONAL - Using scraps from making

the card and an extra image, fussy cut

and make a couple of image pieces.

Arrange and add a name badge.   Adhere

to the backside of the card as shown.

I hope you enjoyed this journey of Marigold N' Berries Digital Stamp Set Instant Digital Download - Etsy.  Available on Etsy.  Join us at "Beautiful Blossoms Challenge" each month for wonderful floral inspiration.

I would like to share this creation with the following:

Beautiful Blossoms Challenge

Hugs,

Jan

Violets are Blue Card

Hello fellow crafters and flower lovers!   I am so excited and honored to be a part of the ever-so-talented Beautiful Blossoms Challenge Blog for 2024!   I chose to draw some violets for this first card tutorial post.

For those of you who are interested in this card I will share with you my list of supplies used.  I used the violets I drew for this occasion, Hammermill® 100lb. White Coverstock,  Core'dinations® Celestial from my stash, Blue Pathways from my stash, Silver Mirrored Foil cardstock from my stash, and a scrap of the Celestial and colored it with COPIC® BV04.

As for the dies I used- I was blessed with some new dies from my brother and his wife for Christmas- they work perfectly for this card.  Hying Flower Leaves Frame Die was the larger die and Amazon -Metal Nested Cutting Dies are the two small pieces.  The embellishments I used are: Nuvo® Crystal Drops- Morning Dew, Nuvo® Glitter Drops- White Blizzard, Studio G® - Green Glitter Drops,  VersaMagic® - Aegean Blue and Silver Baker's Twine. You will need a small paint brush to apply the Glitter glues.   The adhesives I used are:  Elmer's® Craft Bond Spray, EZ-Tear® Tape, Bearly Art® Precision Glue and Foam Tape.

Come along as I walk you through this card step by step...

 I started this card using my new sketch "Violets are Blue", sizing it to 3-3/4"x 3-3/4".  Copied and pasted a second image.  Printed on Hammermill®   100lb. White Coverstock.

You may have a flower you desire to use instead.

However, you can purchase this set- Violets are Blue 5105- at Jan's Digis on Etsy.

You can color your images as desired.

I chose to use COPIC® Markers to color mine.

I used BV00, BV02, BV04 and Multiliner Lavender to color the petals with YG01 on the inner part of the petal as shown.

I used Y00 and an orange x-fine Sharpie® to color the stamen.

Fussy Cut your images as shown.

After fussy cutting my images, I applied Nuvo® Glitter Drops - White Blizzard with a small brush to the flower petals from the petal edge flicking in towards the center of each flower.  Apply to both images.   LET DRY!

Brush on the Studio G® - Green Glitter Drops to the leaves from the outer edge flicking in towards the center as shown.

I then applied Nuvo® Crystal Drops- Morning Dew to the flower centers as a small tear drop shaped dot.    LET DRY!!

 I then cut one of my "Hying Flower Leaves Frame Die" using Hammermill® 100lb. White Coverstock.

I then cut two (2) of the center of my Amazon - Metal Nested Cutting Dies.

I chose to color the Leaves of the “Hying Flower Leaves Frame Die” cut using my COPIC® YG61 and Yg63 as shown.

Cut a 5" x 7" Core'dinations® Celestial Rectangle and edge using Versamagic®- Aegan Blue.

Cut a 4" x 5-1/2" rectangle of the Blue Pathways, center and adhere the Core'dinations® Celestial leaving the upper left corner loose and the lower right corner loose.

Using Elmer's® Craft Bond Spray, lightly spray the backside of the "Hying Flower Leaves Frame Die" cut and adhere at a slight angle.

Slide one of the Amazon - Metal Nested Cutting Die cuts under the 4"x 5-1/2" Blue Pathways upper left corner of the rectangle and one under the lower right corner as shown.

Using Foam Tape, align and adhere the small fussy cut of flowers to the full main image.  Apply and adhere the full violets image to the cardfront  as shown.

Using EZ-Tear® Tape adhere the card front to the 5"x 7" cardbase.  Make sure the fold is on the left.

I like to decorate the backside of my cards.  As an OPTION - use a couple of scraps from the materials used to make the card and a name plaque and arrange.  Adhere to the backside as shown.

Using Silver Baker's twine to wrap 2x around the cardbase at the fold.  Tie a bow.

Using Silver Mirrored Foil cardstock cut a sentiment of your choosing.   I chose "Thinking of You".

I hope you enjoyed my inspirational creation for Beautiful Blossoms.  I invite you to join us each 15th of the month for a FUN challenge and some creative floral inspiration.  I will be posting new card tutorials on Blogger moving forward.  Please Follow my new Blog on Blogger!

Hugs,

I am sharing this delightful creation with the following:

Gem of A Craft Challenge (pinkgemchallengeblog.blogspot.com)

613 Avenue Create (avenue613.blogspot.com)