Sunflowers and Roses Card
using Le Petit Jardin Collection from Couture Creations
This is an A5 (21cm x 14.9cm) card, so you need to cut a piece of the floral paper to 20.2cm x 14.1cm. You also need a piece of the dark purple paper 5cm wide and 20cm long and a piece of the striped paper 4cm wide and 20 cm long.
Stick the strip of striped paper in place down the middle of the dark purple strip, with an even border on either side.
Cut the layered strip into two pieces about 4cm from one end.
Stick the layered strip in place about 1cm from the left hand edge of the floral paper as shown below, leaving a gap where the strip has been cut so that it can over hang the edges of the floral paper a little at both ends (so that it can be trimmed flush with the floral backing paper).
Turn the backing paper over and trim the ends of the strip flush with the edges of the paper.
The backing paper (with the attached strip) can now be stuck down on our A5 card blank.
Use the Floral Wreath hot foil stamp to foil onto the dark purple paper, and cut out using a 6.5cm square die. Mat onto a die cut squire of lilac card.
Foil using the Floral Arrangement 2 hot foil stamp onto some smooth white card, positioned so that it will be in the bottom right corner when you cut a 9cm square from the card. You get a neater edge if you foil first and then die cut the square so that only the flower and part of the leaves are on the topper. There's a link to my video of how to do this at the end.
Stamp a sentiment in black onto the foiled card, and use the sunflower stamp to add more decoration. I used pigment stamping pads to stamp in colors that coordinate with the colors in the backing paper, then pressed the ink pads onto my glass mat to release some ink which I picked up with a water brush fill in some color on top of the stamping. I used the same inks to add subtle color to the foiled sunflower.
Once dry, mat the foiled topper onto some Lilac card.
Cut 2 of the Sunlit Rosebud mini die, one in lilac and one in white. Stick the white one down on lilac card and cut around the edge, and stick the lilac one onto white card and cut around.
Cut 2 of the Evening Branch Mini Die in white card.
Stick the toppers in place using foam pads.
Arrange the roses and Evening Branch die cuts in the bottom right hand corner of the card.
Topper Video
CO725434 - Le Petit Jardin - Le Petit Jardin 12x12 Paper Pad
CO725426 - Le Petit Jardin - Floral Wreath Hot Foil Stamp
CO725427 - Le petit Jardin - Floral Arrangement 2 Hot Foil Stamp
CO725937 - Le petit Jardin - Evening Branch Mini Die
CO725940 - Le Petit Jardin - Sunlit Rosebud Mini Die
CO725437 - Le Petit Jardin - Sunflower mini stamp.
