Garden Treasures Mother's Day Card

This card I have used a new stamp that I have just purchased called Garden Treasures, another of Altenew's beautiful layering stamps.  

I always get asked a lot for Mother's day cards from my colleagues, so its always a good idea to have a few made, although I think this one might be for my Mother.

I stamped a number of the flowers and leaves, as I wasn't sure how many I was going to use in the arrangement on my card.  

I loosely watercoloured them with my new set of Zig clean colour real brush markers.

I love these pens, they flow beautifully, they blend beautifully, the brush tip is great and is so fine, the colour is so pigmented!  

I put a layer of the palest colour for each flower or leaf, and then did some shading with the darker colour where the petals overlapped or at the base of a petal, but really wasn't being too fussy or exact.  

Once I had coloured them, I cut them out with the coordinating die set, and had a play around on the card, to see what arrangement looked best.  Once I was happy with that, I did a few stamps of the leaves and the flower sprig with a light gray ink to give it a bit of depth and fullness to the arrangement.  I call this shadow stamping (I'm not sure what it is really called). 

I then was able to start sticking my flowers and leaves onto the card, some of the background flowers and leaves were stuck down with glue, the others nearer the top were raised with foam tape.  

My sentiment was done with the 'Love you' from the Simon says stamp 'thought messages' stamp with white embossing powder on black card, and then I fussy cut it out.
The Mother was stamped with a 'cheepie' stamp I bought from a Warehouse department store, and this one I cut out normally, mounted them both with foam tape, the black card I used Kool tac tape and the 'mother' I used scotch foam tape.

Finally some dots of Nuvo drops (sweet lilac) to finish it off. 

I am quite please with how pretty it turned out.

Here is a video on making the card. If you would prefer to see it in full HD then please check out my You tube channel here.

The materials I used for this card were:

White card base 5" x 7"

Altenew Garden Treasure Stamp

Altenew Garden Treasure coordinating die

Simon Says Stamp Thoughtful messages stamp

Rosie crafts family sentiment stamp

Strathmore bristol smooth water colour paper

Zig Clean colour real brush markers: Violet and lilac, Light carmine, pink and light pink, yellow and lemon yellow, persian blue and cobalt blue, Deep green, light green and pale green

Kuritaki water brush

Altenew Crisp mini ink cube silver stone

Versafine onyx black ink

Versamark clear ink

Ranger white embossing powder

Ranger clear embossing powder

Heat gun

Big shot

Quilled precision glue applicator bottle

Cosmic shimmer glue

Scotch foam tape

Kool tack clear tape

Acrylic blocks

Misti

Jewel picker

Nuvo crystal drops - sweet lilac

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