Betsy’s Winter Floral card

Hello everyone!  Betsy here and I hope it’s not too cold where you are!  Just because it’s winter doesn’t mean you can’t send a winter-ish beautiful floral card!  Today, I’ve used the Winter Flora Stamps for my card project.  Let me show you how I made it.

This is a cut-away card.  I started with a 5” x 6 ½” white card base.  I cut away 2 ½” on the front right side. I chose my background paper.  I liked that it had detail down the side.  I printed out my focal panel after composing it in the computer onto white card stock.  Then I cut it with a cutting die that looked really nice with the overall card.

I cut my patterned paper into 2 sections.  The first is for the left side. 

The second bigger panel was for the inside. These panels were ¼” less than the card base.

I spent quite a bit of time composing the flowers and greenery. I like the elements I chose and by twisting and turning I really liked how it came out.

I Google Imaged Hellebore and found a photo of them.  They were blue violet, red violet and violet.  I colored the smallest flower with the blue violet palette.  The biggest flower I used the red violet.  And the top one I used straight violet.

These are the 3 colored.  I was pleased with how they looked! Sometimes violets can be a bit challenging in the alcohol marker world.  I did use a different brand for some of the violets.

My focal panel is all colored.  I used shades of green for most of the leaves and berries, changing up the blends. I also intended to back this focal panel with the purple card stock in the photo.

I used Frosted Lace Stickles on the berries and the tips of the leaves and the petals.  This gives a hint of frostiness to the plants.  I cut the purple cardstock to about ¼” bigger than the focal panel and rounded the corners.  I adhered the focal panel to the purple panel with foam tape.  Then I adhered it to the left hand side of the card only.  For a finishing touch I used very narrow purple peel-offs down on each side of the background paper.  And that finished my project!

I’m loving how this card turned out.  It was a bigger card than I normally make, but I love the result.  I have been trying to make bigger cards…not the same size I always use.  I hope you give this card a try.  I didn’t use a greeting on my card, but it could be used for many different occasions.

Til next time…

Betsy

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