Best Wishes Floral Frame Cards

 Best Wishes Floral Frame Cards

Hello Everyone,

Welcome to my next project for Couture Creations using the

'Vintage Flowers' Collection.

This Collection has 4 different 'Cut & Create Dies'.  These dies are for foiling but as you will see they are multi-functional.  Each of the 3 cards use the 'Floral Frame' as the base on which each of the 3 flower arrangements are placed.  I played around with the flowers using mostly the new 'Fluoro' Alcohol Inks.  As you know there are no 'rules' with creating, it's the surprise you get by trying something different.  So here goes...

CARD 1 - using the 'STANDING DAISIES' dies

I started by die cutting the daisies using the 'Go Cut & Emboss' platform and new 'Water Colour' Paper for this - worked a treat.  The elements cut sharply and embossed beautifully.

I left the die-cuts in the paper strip while I painted them with 3 fluro alcohol inks - Green, Yellow & Pink.   

I put drops of the colours onto the glass mat and used a blending tip to brush paint the flowers.  The inks dried fast which was good because I could keep adding layers of colour until I was happy with the result.

Next I added foam squares under all the die-cut pieces, tied a bow and added a couple of adhesive gems along the centre of the butterfly.  I gently curled the wings of the butterfly to give a more dimentional look. 

I glued the silver glitter card (backed with cardboard) to the card base.  The Floral frame die was cut from matte silver card, this layered on top of the glitter card.  This was my base that I used - the embossing was just beautiful.

This was the elements for card 1 - Daisies

The Finished Daisy Card.

CARD 2 - using the ' Layered CAMELIA' Dies

 

I wanted to try dropping/spraying alcohol inks onto the watercolour paper to see what would happen.  I have a short video clip below showing what I was up to doing this.

Once it was dry (not long) I just cut the dies from the paper.

A close-up of how pretty the glitter accents were and how vivid the fluro inks were - wow!

CARD 3 - using the 'Zinnia' Dies

I was curious how the fluro inks would look like on black card, so I had a play. The colours remained true even on black!

A close-up of the Zinnia card.  I added the blue glitter card and the orange cardstock matting to try and lift this card as before it ended up too silver.

Anyway this was just one way to play with this lovely set of dies and beautiful vibrant alcohol inks.  Hope it sparkes some interest for you to have a go.

Couture Creations Products Used:-

BASE CARD MATERIALS

CO727726       Vintage Flowers - Floral Frame Cut & Create Die

CO725409        Mirror Boards - Matte Silver

CO727166        Glitter Card - Silver

CO723779         Foam Squares

                          Card Base & cardboard

Additional items for CARD 1 - DAISY

CO727727      Vintage Flowers - Standing Daisies Cut & Create Die

CO728159     Cotton Watercolour Paper - 300gsm

CO727342     Alcohol Ink Blending Tips - Fine Point

CO727312    Alcohol Ink Fluro Pink

CO727951    Alcohol Ink Fluro Yellow

CO727958    Alcohol Ink Fluro Green

CO727337    Alcohol Ink Blending Solution

CO721982    Glitzin Glamour - Antique Silver

                      Ribbon bow and adhesive gems

Additional items for CARD 2 - Camelia

CO727728         Vintage Flowers - Layered Camelia Cut & Create Die

CO727790     New Adventures - Olive Branch Cut & Create Die

CO728159     Cotton Watercolour Paper - 300gsm

CO727958     Alcohol Ink - Fluro Green

CO727959     Alcohol Ink - Fluro Blue

CO727965     Alcohol Ink - Fluro Purple

CO727665     Alcohol Ink - Glitter Accents - Graphite

CO727666     Alcohol Ink - Glitter Accents - Angelic

                        Ribbon and foam squares

Additional items for CARD 3 - Zinnia

CO727725     Vintage Flowers - Layered Zinnia Cut & Create Die

CO727859     Alcohol Ink Blower

CO727954     Alcohol Ink - Fluro - Burnt Orange

CO727956     Alcohol Ink - Fluro - Orange

CO727957     Alcohol Ink - Fluro - White

CO727665     Alcohol Ink - Glitter Accents - Graphite

CO727666     Alcohol Ink - Glitter Accents - Angelic

CO721982    Glitzin Glamour - Antique Silver

CO727174     Glitter Card - Lagoon Blue

ULT200062    Cardstock - Persimmon

                    Black card, foam squares and cardboard

I added a couple of videos:-  

The first one shows how I used the alcohol inks and blower to get a spray of small dots.

The second video is just showing how pretty the alcohol ink glitter accents shine.

To find a store near you that stock these Couture Creations products, click on the following link:-

https://couturecreations.com.au/pages/store locator

My Blog Link is:-

cardcraftkaylee.blogspot.com

Thanks for joining me...

'Merry Christmas' Card

My finished card

Hello Everyone,

Welcome to my next project for Couture Creations using the

'CHARMING XMAS' -Precious Marieke Collection

This is a 'Pop-out' Decoupage Sheet that has 3 separate layered images to use.  It is a very quick way to create a very pretty layered card.

 

I started by gathering various components together.  This was the initial idea and as usual I kept adding more as the card evolved.

You can use any of your stash of supplies that you have on hand to do this card.

I prepped the elements - die-cutting, trimming the card stock to a size you are happy with, embossed the red card using the 'small dots' embossing folder, inking the edges, and backed the elements using either double-sided foam or cardboard.

It was just a matter of layering all the elements together.  Instead of putting the top bow on the layer, I just used it as an offset feature.  I added a bit of muslin behind the feature piece and dabbled silver Glitzin Glamour on some of the edges. 

    

My completed card.

Couture Creations Products Used:- Couture Creations Web Site

    SB10047            Decoupage Sheet - Charming Xmas

    CO727166         Glitter Card - Silver

    CO726460        Modern Essentials Die - Nesting Inset Oval Frames

    ULT2000067    12" x 12" cardstock - Garnet

    ULT2000045    12" x 12" cardstock - Paper Bag

    CO727948        Blending Brush - Medium

    CDEIPU032       Dye Ink - Cappuccino

    CO721970        Glitzin Glamour - Silver

    CO727909        The Gift of Giving - Die Cut Ephemera Set - Sentiment

    CO723779        Foam squares

                              Embossing Folder - Small Dots 

Other Products:-

    Card Base, Muslin, cardboard and glue 

To find a store near you that stock these Couture Creations products, click on the following link:-

https://couturecreations.com.au/pages/store locator

My Blog Link is:-

cardcraftkaylee.blogspot.com

Thanks for joining me...