Pastel Green

Hi – I'm back again....

Today sees another stamped and heat embossed project....

The stamps are part of the collection by Chloe – and they are fab stamps – they give perfect images every time!!!

So I used the large flower, small flower, leaf, half butterfly and a sentiment from Flower Soft

To make this card I used a bought 8x8 card, trimmed a sheet of Woodland Folk brown spotty paper to fit leaving a very narrow all round border and stuck in place with double sided tape

I made sure I used the pritt stick on every piece of double sided tape or pads just so if I wasn't lined up correctly I could remove and re- position it

Using the large flower I stamped out 4 flowers using versamark then covered with Woodware pastel green embossing powder, tapped off the excess and heated.

I did the same for 4 small flowers, 4 leaves and 2 butterflies

I originally stamped a Happy Birthday sentiment but decided to go with something more general so the card could be used for most events!

When it came to making up the card I used 2 large and 2 small flowers, shaped all petals and stacked into one another – these were placed along the spine edge of the card – one at the top the other at the bottom....and the leaves were randomly placed around each flower.

I added a pretty silver button with clear inset stone into each flower centre using my favoured Cosmic Shimmer PVA glue.

One of the butterflies was stuck to the card and the 2^nd was shaped and attached along the body only....again using Cosmic Shimmer PVA glue

After heat embossing the sentiment, I cut it out using a label nestability and then inked the edges using a Tim Holtz Distress Ink pad – it was 1 of the limited editions – Evergreen Bough a great match it was too!

The sentiment was added at a slight angle and a pretty bow, made using brown spotty ribbon was added above it!

I love these cards – they take a lot of cutting out once the embossing is done but I think they are worth the effort – don't you?

Bye for now...

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