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Todays post is my design team contribution for Creative Knockouts where the theme this fortnight is Anything Goes!
I used this cute digital image called Spring flower from Star Stampz
I decided to do some paper piecing along with using my promarkers to create the girl .. I printed the same image several times on both the white cardstock and the patterned paper.
Then I fussy cut out the pieces I wanted to layer and coloured the rest with my promarkers. I also added promarkers to the skin elements of the image.
This is how I had got it before I actually glued it together.
After glueing together I added some shading to the image and some dots of brighter colour to the flower stamen. Then started thinking about putting the card together. At this point the in progress photos disappear as I get busy creating!
I chose another piece of the crafters companion paper from the stash and had that as the base layer. I edged it with black pen though as I thought the line art on the image was so thick it needed the black line of the frame in contrast to the soft papers.
I did the same black pen for the edge of the image panel.
I added the spellbinders wreath from an old spellbinders set in the Kraft and then used a Sizzix die set to create the flowers.
Again I used the paper scraps from the paper piecing to create the flowers so they coordinated.
I popped this all together with the flowers coming from behind the panel but also overlapping the edge.
Then I decided to go bold and added the sentiment heat embossed on the sweet sorbet card and then needed to add a pop of the red on other parts of the card … so I inked up some white cardstock with the sweet sorbet ink and die cut the tiny flowers and also added the dots using a dot from Artistically inked stamp set to the background.
I think this added enough to tie it all in together.
Inside the card (it’s a 6×6 card blank) I added one more of the flower die cuts that I made, this time in full.
Love this cute card and saving it until September for my cousin’s daughter as I think it is perfect for her (so shhhhh keep it 🤫 secret!).
Happy crafting!
Catherine
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