Betsy’s Spring Flowers card

Hello everyone! Betsy here today sharing a spring inspired card project. Spring is close and it’s time to make things with flowers! Today’s project will use the Hoppy Easter stamp set. This is a very versatile set. Let me show you how I made this fun fold card!

I started by composing my images. I copied and pasted the grass stamp several times. I printed this out onto white card stock.

Next I took a 6 ½” x 5” white notecard and cut away 1 ¼” on each side of the front. This leaves a nice 4” center panel on the base to put the focal on.

At this point I die cut my image with a 3 ½” x 4 ½” fancy rectangle die. Then I chose my papers. I needed 2 that went well together. I chose the blue for the center panel because I didn’t want to color the background of my image. And having a blue panel underneath gives the idea of sky on a spring day! I deliberately chose the plaid paper with a “Spring” color palette.

I started my coloring by identifying the main colors and placement. I color matched to the plaid paper.

The coloring was really quite quick. I did 2, 3 and 4 color blends for the elements.

This image colored up nicely and it looked really good with the plaid paper. At this point, I covered the card base with the center panel blue and the side panels plaid. My side panels were only about 1/8” underneath the center flap.

The side pieces of plaid paper could be edged with a cute edge die. For embellishments I adhered tiny yellow flowers amongst the grass with Stickles in the center along with some green twine. And I placed 3 tiny butterfly sequins around the flowers in the can. I did not add a sentiment, but this could be used as a get well card and so many other occasions. I foam taped the focal to the center blue panel of the card.

This card project worked up quite quickly. With only a smaller focal, the card base and papers did the rest of the work! I hope I’ve inspired you to try making one of these side cut-away cards. If you do, tag us on social media…we would love to see it!

Til next time…

Betsy

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