Betsy’s pretty spring pansy card

Hello everyone!  Betsy here showing you how to make this sweet pansy card.  Pansies are amongst my favorite flowers so I knew I want to make a card project with them.  I have used the Signs of Spring digital stamp set.  This set has so many elements to choose from!  Let me show you how I made my card.

I have to tell you this card started out with a lot more ambition. I was going to make a wreath with all of the flowers and it looked so daunting I had to pare it down.  So I printed out 10 pansies.  I did flip them and the top row is a bit smaller than the bottom row.

I started my coloring with the leaves.  I knew they would all be the same so I wanted to choose those colors first.

I started coloring the flowers and as you can see I didn’t like the first one, I did like the second one better but I didn’t use it.

As you can see I eventually went with a much lighter and simpler blend on the flowers. 

I also added thin black lines to the center of the flowers with a black fine liner pen. 

After they were colored I fussy cut them and went around the edges with a black marker. I actually cut the flowers off the stems and made most of the stems shorter so I could tuck them in.  I made a lavender card base and tore a strip of purple gingham paper which revealed the white core and I really liked that.  I adhered a kraft colored paper doily on the left side and let it go off the edge a bit.  I stamped it with a sentiment from my stash.  I die cut  a small doily from white card stock as a base for the flowers/leaves. 

I foam taped the flowers on first.  Then I adhered the leaves/stems flat on the surface.  I used tiny gold flat back beads as one embellishment. I used Stickles on the centers of the pansies.  I also found an enamel heart that matched perfectly.  If you didn’t have one, you could die cut one that matches and cover it with Glossy Accents.  After that, my project was done!

You could use any flowers from the stamp set…they are all so pretty. I hope you’ve enjoyed today’s tutorial.  If you give this a try, please tag us on social media.  We love to see what you are creating!

Til next time…

Betsy

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