Just for you card - an cascade of Peonies

I am sharing a card made for another crafty friend of mine. Over the first lockdown, we decided to to do a make and swap between us and using two of her favourite colours, this is the card that I came up with.

 For this lovely lady, I decided to go for a cascade of peonies made using Fleurs Flower forming foam and my Tattered Lace Charisma Swift Peony die set.

I used some fabre castel oil pastels on the edges of the petals to tone my flowers to give them a more natural flower look and to accompany the peonies I also used the Fleurs dahlia leaf dies for foliage.

Using a lemon base card (8x8), I added an apricot layer of card to compliment the flowers. One of my favourite Tattered Lace die sets is the Fine Filament collection because of its detailed lacy square panel die. 

Just under the lacy lemon panel die, I also added a white vellum layer which I had smooshed some of my Dreamees dinky inky ink pad in gold mist (using a soft make up brush I had). This ink pad just leaves a hint of gold shimmer on the vellum, just enough to shimmer through the die-cut panel.

After adding my flowers I finished my card with a heat embossed sentiment using gold embossing powder onto a piece of vellum and adding just a few Dreamee olive pearls.

I was really happy with how it turned out and that my friend liked it too. In return, I received a gorgeous card that sits on my dressing table in my bedroom.

Happy crafting!

Fleurs flowers Birthday card

Sharing a vibrant floral birthday card today made for a special friend.  The theme for the  Blog Challenge over on Daisy Chains this month is "make it feminine"

I have used my large Tattered Lace Rainy Days Story Book dies for this card as I wanted plenty of space for my flowers.

I used the Create & Craft Core Collection cardstock. Ivory for the base card and a mix from the Red Berry collection, with an accent of green from the Forever Green collection.

For the flowers I used the Tattered lace Swift Peony die and some Fleurs flower forming foam. Using an oil pastel, I edged the petals in a darker shade of pink. before moulding and twisting the petals in my fingers.  The heat of your hands blends the colour into the petals for a softer edge.

I then layered up the petals using a hot glue gun but go sparingly on the glue.  For the leaves, I used the Fleurs Dahlia leaf die.

I did the same with the stamens using the flower forming foam

The foam keeps its shape really well but once your petals are all glued together, you can still remould your flowers for a better shape if need be.  If you don't have any flower forming foam, paper will work just as well.

As the card was all about the flowers, I wanted to make sure I could fit them all on comfortably. 

To finish the card I used small pieces of white organza ribbon in the eyelets and a stamped sentiment by Tattered Lace.

As this card had a lot of dimension, it needed a box

......finished off with a flower but one to match the card I made the box out of.

Have a look at the rest of the inspiration over on the blog today for this months challenge on Daisy Chains.

Happy Crafting