Happy Wednesday Crafters!
Today I wanted to revisit the technique I shared with you a little while back of creating the gorgeous metallic floral displays, it's so easy and can come in handy for so many occasions.
Step 1:
I started with a DL card base and then cut my mats from Black and Silver card. I used a pearl silver card but mirri card is fine too.
Black 19.5cm x 8.6cm
Silver 20.2cm x 9.2cm
I glued these to my card base using wet glue.
Step 2:
Next I cut my flowers and foliage using the Cosmos Flower die set -
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I cut them out in black card (using the left over card from my black mat)
Once cut out, I then took my Nova Fine Line Metallic Markers and coloured all my flowers and foliage.
I cut a random amount as I wasn't sure how many I needed (ended up only using just one flower and one foliage piece, so that wasn't a bad guess).
I used my fine tip glue bottle with Cosmic Shimmer Glue and made my flowers up. This set gives you both an open fret work flower and a solid base so you can layer them. I then used my glue and black foam squares to decorate the lower part of the front of my card.
Step 3:
For my sentiment I used 'Happy Retirement' and cut out in black.
Again using my Nova pens, I coloured the 'Happy' with a separate colour for each letter and then 'Retirement' I used the silver colour.
Using my fine tip glue, I added it to the top of my card.
Final Step:
I added some Silver Pearls to my flowers.
TIP - Even though they are adhesive, I do add a little glue to give extra strength.
I then added some random glue blobs and added some Dew Drops.
Card completed!
I hope you like my card and will give it a go.
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I would love to see your version of my creation. Please share your makes onto the FB page Create with Craftmania and Jamie Rodgers.
Cheers Guys and tune in next week for another Blog!
Take Care,
Ian x
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Love the card, it looks great and has that framed, metal look on the black - black as a retirement card would not bother me if it was as beautiful as this card. x Lucille