You don't have to be perfect... girl with flowers 7x5in card - Day 193 of my 365 day challenge

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You don't have to be perfect... girl with flowers 7x5in card - 
Day 193 of my 365 day challenge

Hi Craft addicts!

Today's card (day 193 of my 365 day challenge) is a hand coloured and hand painted cute card that I have made using Tattered Lace dies and water colours.



How I made this card:-

  • I used a panel of watercolour card and painted it using orange, yellow, green, blue and purple Tattered Angels Color Wash paints in a rainbow pattern and left it to dry.
  • Once it was, I trimmed  it so that it measured 100x145mm and glued it to the front of a 7x5in white card.
  • I then cut out the cute little girl, the rabbit, flowers and leaves from various Tattered Lace dies and coloured them all in using a variety of alcohol markers - blues, pinks, yellows, oranges and green for the flowers and leaves - some of them were attached so snipped them into smaller parts so that I would be able to fill the basket.
  • I then coloured the girl in, again using alcohol markers (this time Orange, red, pink, brown, green and flesh colours) - I also used a blender pen to remove some of the colour from her hair.
  • I used grey shades for the rabbit and pink for its' ears.
  • I also stamped out the basket (I think it is from an Easter set by Hunkydory) and coloured it in brown, pink and orange alcohol markers and cut around it.
  • Using foam pads, I placed the basket on the bottom left hand corner of the panel. As it had some height, I was able to add the flowers behind it and again used a mix of glue, tape pen and foam pads to place them - I had already added the leaves to the back directly to the panel.
  • I then added the girl to the right hand side again with foam pads and then added the rabbit to the bottom of the basket.
  • Finally (and I realise now that I should have done it first), I stamped the sentiment in the top left hand corner using Versafine Onyx Black ink.

And there you are a card that is very easy to make and hopefully would make a great card to say that you think someone is special!

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Products and items you may need to make this project
  • 7x5in white card with envelope (from Paper Boutique, Creative Crafting World or Hunkydory)
  • Cute girl die from Tattered Lace
  • Flowers and leaves dies from Tattered Lace
  • Rabbit die again from Tattered Lace
  • Basket stamp (I think from a collection by Hunkydory For The Love of Stamps
  • You don't have to be perfect stamp from Stamps by Me
  • Various alcohol markers
  • Tattered Angels Color Wash paints
  • Cosmic Shimmer PVA Glue
  • Tape pens
  • Foam pads
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