Spring birthday

Good Morning everyone

Today im sharing the cards i made for my sister in laws birthday this week.  Her favourite colour in yellow/orange so i started off with a spring crocus

4.5x6" White gold pearl card base.  I embossed the base card with a swirly embossing folder.  I then die cut 3 cross stitched rectangles, on one of them i stamped the chocolate baroque crocus stamp,  i stamped the crocus again onto more of the pearl cardstock.  I added a watercolour background with distress inks tumbled glass & cracked pistachio, i them stencilled swirls onto all 3 panels using the same inks.  I watercoloured the extra crocus in shades of yellowy orange and cut it out and attached to the base image with glue gel.

I attached the extra 2 rectangles to the card front top left and bottom right with foam tape and then mounted the crocus panel in the middle with more foam tape.  I die cut the sentiment from scraps of burnt orange satin cardstock and added some orange gems to finish.  

 

Here you can really see the burnt orange satin card, its a shame the pearl of the cardstock doesn't show up.

I had some left over pieces so made a little happy mail card to brighten a friends day, made the same way just a lovely sentiment from magazine

and onto the 2nd card i made for my sis-in-law 

DL white base card.  I first made a background which you can see below.  Using these lovely DL dies i was given for Christmas i die cut the biggest one from my yellow background and a smaller one from white linen cardstock.  From the yellow one i cut the middle out (gutted it) as i usually do as this then gave me enough to die cut my leaves from.

I arranged the leaves onto the base and glued into place and then stamped the sentiment.  I then attached to the base card with foam tape.

and this is the background i made.   I first used brushos - lemon & gambage with cosmic shimmer pixie powders in 'mango' &  'scarlet mist' Once completely dry I then stencilled over the top with a mix of distress inks & oxide inks so it has alot of different finishes and lovely shimmer when the light catches it which makes it more interesting on the eye once die cut than just a flat inked panel.   

Items Used:

Chocolate Baroque stamp 'spring is in the air'

Simply cards & papercraft mag 240 sentiment freebie (step into spring)

Birthday sentiment stamp

Cross stitched rectangle die

DL nesting dies

concorde & ninth layering leaves die set (the leaf)

A4 swirly embossing folder

Stencils

Brushos

Pixie powders

Thank you all for stopping by, i hope its a good week for you.  Emmax

Id love to enter the following with my first crocus card

http://inkspirationalchallenges.blogspot.com/2023/02/inkspirational-challenge-284-designers.html

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https://dd-tripleb.blogspot.com/2023/03/march-challenge.html  - using blooms

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http://simplycreatetoo.blogspot.com/2023/03/188-spring-colors.html

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http://2sistersontheblog.blogspot.com/2023/03/challenge-72.html - spring card

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https://www.welovestamping.co.uk/2023/03/march-challenge.html - spring theme