Let’s Go Outside
Golden Flowers
Good day, fellow crafters. Introducing a card that's so incredibly awesome, you won't believe your eyes! In the past, I've often raved about the jaw-dropping shine of a card, insisting that you've got to witness it in person. But guess what? Today, while I was having a lightbulb moment (literally), I switched off my studio lights and voilà! The card revealed a whole new side – it's like a magical transformation. So, I snapped a quick photo, lined it up with the original dazzler, and bam! Side by side, so you can truly catch the enchantment. And just to clarify, YES, you're looking at the same card – it's all about the power of angles and a touch of studio magic. Hope you enjoy.
To create this card I first began with some white cardstock and my Zig brush pen set. Utilizing a nice light blue and some light pressure I colored the paper to use as the backdrop of my panel. My design intention was to give you a sense of the open sky in the background but have a camera-like blur feel, appearing out of focus and distant. I then allowed it to dry thoroughly.
The next step was to place my paper into my Misti stamping tool and then align the SSS Sunflower Fields stamp, featured left, onto the cover. I then inked the stamp with clear embossing ink and stamped the image a couple of times to make sure I had adequate coverage. Once I was satisfied I took my paper out of the Misti and applied Recelections Pealized Embossing Powder to the entire image. The shine in the image appears golden but the powder is a pearl white. Then using my heat gun, I set the powder with an even application of heat until it was melted. Once the paper cooled, I returned with my Zig brush pens and colored in the image, and allowed to dry.
The next step was to cut out the panel. To do this I turned to the die sets I would be using for this project. Featured in the image to the right, you will see first Spellbinders Labels 28 which was the die for the job. This was a case of this card was going to have to be hand delivered because I didn’t want to mess the image up trying to force it to a standard A2 size so I went with the largest of the dies in this set and cut the panel. I next cut a light brown mat that complements the earthy idea of flowers and the outdoors extremely well. I adhered them together and then adhered them to a custom-sized card base.
I then turned to the second set of dies in the image above, the Noteworthy Frames from Pinkfresh Studio for the sentiment. I used some of the cut-off from the background panel to stamp my sentiment, from the Sunflower Fields stamp set, with some of Lawn Fawn’s ink in the color Doe. I wanted another brown but a different shade than the mat. Then I used my chosen frame to cut the sentiment out and then mounted it to the card background with some pop dots.
To finish the card, and to add some visual appeal, I added some of Kat Scrappiness’s flat-backed rhinestones. These are some of my favorite embellishments. They will change color with the light as well as with whatever the color of the thing they are stuck to. Just a slight variation in the light gives them an entirely new look that really makes this card.
