Yesterday I held my spring all day event. This event was an all day class filled with lots of great company, wonderful inspiration and creativity. The featured products were the gorgeous Floral Delight suite. It was just perfect for a spring event with it's beautiful shades of yellow colours and blossoms. The suite includes the Floral Delight pattern papers, Floral and gingham vellums , the cutest Tiny bee trinkets and a gorgeous narrow yellow ribbon. 💛 🧡 💛 a true feast of spring for the eye!
Whilst everyone was creating their own beautiful projects I did a little Crafting myself! This suite is just so inspiring that I couldn't stop creating with it 😜.
So today's project is one that was created as I sat with the amazing crafters and is influenced by their creativity.
I'm calling this card a retro birthday card because the colour palette just reminded me of the browns, yellows and oranges of my childhood in the 70's . What do you think? Does it have a taste of the 70's in the colours?
To create the texture on the yellow cardstock I first created a mask using one of the dies from the
Delightful Wishes dies. I die cut it from a scrap of vellum but any thinner non porus medium will work such as thin acetate.
I then took some
embossing paste and using a
palette knife swipped the paste through the the mask onto a piece of yellow cardstock.
Repeating the process over the cardstock until it had the look I was after. Top tip when using embossing paste have a bowl of warm water to hand to wash your tools in immediately after using them. If you don't the paste doesn't come of and you risk ruining your tools. The paste dries quickly so it's best to have everything to hand before you start.
I used the embossed panel not only on the front of the card but on the inside too!
The combination of colours and texture with the satin ribbon and embossing paste give this project lots of va va voom.
The beautiful forsythia stamped image is achieve by stamping each part separately. I would recomend starting with the highlight of the blossoms first. Then use the blossom nside stamp, next the twig and finally the leaves. It sounds tricky but I promise it's not that bad as these stamps are photopolymer so easy to see through 😀.
So does this card have retro vibes? Or is it just me 😅 ?
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