Dimensional Flower card

This card I wanted to give more of an impression of dimension, but the rest is basically stamping and colouring

I stamped two flowers for each of the main flowers I wanted to put on the card, and then quite a few leaves as I didn’t know how many I would need and then a couple of the flower sprigs. 

I coloured them with my zig real brush clean colour markers, but this time I didn’t use water to blend the colour, I used the lightest of whatever colours I was using to do the blending, but had a paper towel next to me in case the brush got too much of the darker colour on it, so that I could keep parts of the petals paler. Two of the larger flowers, I only coloured the flower to the first set of petals. 

I then fussy cut all the flowers and leaves out, and went around the edges with a black pen, to neaten them up.  Finally I did a little bit of shaping with my fingers to give the leaves and flowers some dimension.  The two large flowers, I cut one of them to the first set of petals, and the second one I coloured and cut the whole flower.  Then the smaller part of the flower was put onto the second with some scotch foam tape between, this gave the flower a great look of dimension. 

Finally the card base, I used a dark red card base, then made a front panel to fit that but cut a scalloped border at the bottom,  stamped my sentiment onto that towards the top, then mounted it onto the card base with some craft foam.  Then I just needed to make an arrangement with the flowers and leaves between  the scalloped border and the sentiment. 

I am happy with how it turned out,

Here is the video of making the card, if you prefer to watch it in HD, on my You tube channel then click here

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The materials used to make the card are:

Altenew beautiful day stamp

Misti,

Versafine onyx black ink

Ranger clear embossing powder

Zigs  Pinks 025 pink, 026 light pink, 028 Pale pink, purples 080 Violet, 083 lilac, greens, 045 Pale green, 047 May green, 044 Deep green, 060 brown, yellows 050 yellow & 052 bright yellow

White card for front panel

Spellbinder A2 scalloped border die

Dark red card base 5” x 7”

Strathmore Bristol smooth water colour paper

Black Emboss pen

Craft foam

Scotch foam tape

Cutter bee scissors

Time for Tea stamp set

Double sided tape

Quilled precision applicator bottle

Cosmic shimmer glue

Acetate grid sheet downloaded from 'My sweet petunia'

I hope this card inspires you to drag out a border die you might already have and use some flower stamps you also might have and use them a little differently.