Modern Peonies recessed sentiment card

I started off by making a card panel with the water colour card using a larger stitched rectangle die by partially cutting it, made it fit my standard card base

I then stamped the sentiment using the sentiment stamps from the peony set.

I then went around the perimeter of the card using the peony stamps and some of the leaf stamps. Masking some of the flowers when I stamped the leaves, so they would appear behind the flowers slightly. 

I then did some basic water colouring with the zig markers  to make some yellow and blue peonies (yes I know peonies don’t come in blue, but they do Yellow…artistic licence)

Once I was finished the colouring, and it was dry, I cut out an oval around the sentiment …. Aaaaarghhh…this feels so wrong after doing all that colouring... through some of the flowers as well!

I then put some craft foam on the back of the outside part of the card, and stuck that to my card base with double sided tape, just to give the card a bit of dimension and interest.Then stuck the oval down inside that, matching up the flowers all the way around, this was to the card base without any foam tape, so it is lower that the outside.  Things like this take a fairly ordinary card to another level I think. 

That’s the card finished.  Fairly simple and because the stamps have such small petals, it really was pretty basic colouring.

Here is a video of making the card. If you would prefer to see it in Full HD then go over to my You tube channel here.

Supplies I have used in this card are:

Wplus 9 modern peonies stamp set

Sue Wilson stitched lattice frames die

5” x 7” card base

Extra piece of Tim Holtz water colour card for front panel

Versamark ink

Versafine onyx black ink

Ranger clear & white embossing powders

EK success powder tool

Misti

My sweet petunia acetate grid sheet

Zig real brush clean clear markers

Greens 045 pale green & 046 mid green

Yellows 050 yellow, 051 Lemon yellow and 061 light brown 

Blues 036 light blue and 037 cornflower blue

Water brush

Inside outside oval die (not branded)

Craft foam

Double sided tape
Pretty pink posh Sparkling clear sequins in 4mm & 6mm
Jewel picker