'Blues and Browns.'

 Good evening Lovelies,

Hope all is well with you.   Thank you for visiting my last blog post and thank you to those who left me lovely comments, means a lot.   O.k. onto this evening's card.   This was made for the  Imagination Craft's show on the Create & Craft T.V. Channel on the 20th. January 2022.   I used Imagination Craft's beautiful 'Belle Jardin' collection - rice papers and stencils,  alongside Cadence metallic paint and decoupage glue.

Cut out the section of rice paper you would like for your background, cutting it slightly larger than a 7" x7" piece of card.

Cut out a 7"x7" piece of white card and using the Cadence Decoupage Plus glue, fix the paper to the piece of card.   Bend the excess rice paper to the back of the piece of card and secure with the glue.   When dry, rub some Walnut Stain Distress Ink around all four outer edges of the background paper, using a piece of cut and used foam.

From the second sheet of rice paper, roughly cut out the flower head, cutting it a little larger than 4 inches in diameter.   Fix this with the decoupage glue onto a 4 inch die-cut white circle of card.   Bend the excess paper to the back of the circle and secure with the glue and rub some Walnut Stain Distress Ink around the edge of the circle.

From the second piece of rice paper,  cut out the tag and glue this to a piece of white card, using the decoupage glue.   When dry, trim around the tag, cutting away any excess white card.   Cut out the small flowers and fix these to some white card and when dry, paint them with watered down Mediterranean sky metallic paint, then  cut them out.

Cut a piece of white card seven and a quarter inches square and paint all four outer edges with the Cadence Dora Metallic Paint -  Mediterranean Sky and leave to dry.

Paint the flower head with watered down Dora Mediterranean Sky metallic paint.

Matt and layer the background card onto the blue edged piece of card and then onto an 8"x8" white scalloped base card.

Glue the circle in position on the background, matching the original images on the background rice paper, using silicone.fix the small flowers in the bottom right corner, using silicone glue. 

Glue the tag in position using silicone glue and add a blue satin organza  ribbon bow to the top of the tag.   

Make two small butterflies by laying the stencil onto some spare white card and stippling some of the blue metallic paint through the small butterfly design using a stencil brush.

(I actually made 1 large and 2 small butterflies, intending to use all 3 but then decided that 3 made the card look too busy)

Cut out the butterflies and glue one to the top right corner and the other to the bottom of the tag.   Well that is the card finished.

 

Thank you for visiting my blog, take care of yourselves and stay safe.    I will be back again quite soon.

                                                                     Love and rainbows,

                                                                      Hugs   Jennifer xx.