Happy Everything
Card front: Place your card with the fold at the left. Cover the card front with Wildflowers brown/ivory dot paper. Cut a 4 3/4"x6 1/4" Wildflowers lavender textured paper and glue it centered on the card.
Cut a piece of watercolor paper slightly larger than the Flower Frame embossing folder and lightly mist it with water. Place it inside the folder and in the appropriate “sandwich&rdquo,; then run it through your die-cutting/embossing machine. Trim around the edges of the Flower Frame. Trim “Happy Everything” into a 4 1/8”x1” rectangle.
Use the #141 and #136 pencils to color the raised areas of the flower frame, alternating areas of color with each pencil. Add a little water to your acrylic block or palette. Add water to the colored areas of the flower with the brush. Take the #141 pencil and moisten the tip with water. Now add more vibrant color as needed to the raised flower design, adding more water to the tip as needed. Repeat for the #136 pencil. Use the moistened #141 pencil to color in the raised areas of “Happy Everything”. Use a wet brush to even out the color on the letters as needed. Create a lavender wash on the acrylic block or palette with a little color from both pencils and water. It should be a very pale lavender wash. Quickly paint in the solid areas of the flower with the pale wash. Repeat for the area around “Happy Everything”. Let the pieces dry.
Foam tape the flower frame on Wildflowers green/ivory patterned paper and trim the edges to 1/8” borders. Glue it on the card, centered 1/4” from the top. Mat “Happy Everything” on brown/ivory dot paper with 1/16” borders. Glue it centered below the flower frame.
Add Silver Jewel Dazzles™ near the flower center as shown. Add Silver Jewel Border Dazzles™ on the edges of the lavender paper and on the bottom of the green mat. Use 1/4" wide lavender glimmer ribbon to tie a bow. Zot™ the bow on the right side of the card as shown.
Cut a piece of watercolor paper slightly larger than the Flower Frame embossing folder and lightly mist it with water. Place it inside the folder and in the appropriate “sandwich&rdquo,; then run it through your die-cutting/embossing machine. Trim around the edges of the Flower Frame. Trim “Happy Everything” into a 4 1/8”x1” rectangle.
Use the #141 and #136 pencils to color the raised areas of the flower frame, alternating areas of color with each pencil. Add a little water to your acrylic block or palette. Add water to the colored areas of the flower with the brush. Take the #141 pencil and moisten the tip with water. Now add more vibrant color as needed to the raised flower design, adding more water to the tip as needed. Repeat for the #136 pencil. Use the moistened #141 pencil to color in the raised areas of “Happy Everything”. Use a wet brush to even out the color on the letters as needed. Create a lavender wash on the acrylic block or palette with a little color from both pencils and water. It should be a very pale lavender wash. Quickly paint in the solid areas of the flower with the pale wash. Repeat for the area around “Happy Everything”. Let the pieces dry.
Foam tape the flower frame on Wildflowers green/ivory patterned paper and trim the edges to 1/8” borders. Glue it on the card, centered 1/4” from the top. Mat “Happy Everything” on brown/ivory dot paper with 1/16” borders. Glue it centered below the flower frame.
Add Silver Jewel Dazzles™ near the flower center as shown. Add Silver Jewel Border Dazzles™ on the edges of the lavender paper and on the bottom of the green mat. Use 1/4" wide lavender glimmer ribbon to tie a bow. Zot™ the bow on the right side of the card as shown.