Hello Everyone!
Michelle from the Design Team and today’s inspiration is a sunshine-soaked card for when things feel a little prickly, a sweet little calico cat and its glitter winged friends are there for you and ready to give you hug (or more plants)!
I used supplies from the new release:
I like my cards to be bright, busy and colourful so it was a slight challenge when it involved cacti and a limited colour palette! Hopefully I have managed to still keep to my usual style.
To create it, first, I stamped and coloured my images with alcohol markers and highlighted with a white gel pen.
I then stamped and heat embossed the sentiment onto the planter section of the cacti with white embossing powder. I am always nervous with embossing directly on a coloured image or a near finished card (Im a perfectionist and I don’t want to redo it again) but luckily everything turned out ok!
Next, using the second largest rounded corner stitched rectangle die I cut out 3 panels from white cardstock. For 1 of them, I ink blended fluffy clouds with blue ink and added splatters.
For the other 2, these were going to be the grass. I die cut these with a grass die with one shorter than the other and ink blended with 2 shades of green (a light and dark). I then splattered with water that I blotted dry and then added more with the darker green ink.
Once I had all the main pieces of the card, I arranged my cute little scene and glued everything down with liquid glue. I then framed the whole thing with a sunny border that I die cut from a a piece of yellow gingham pattered cardstock using the largest rounded corner stitched rectangle die.
As a finishing touch, I added glitter to the butterflies, the clouds and the flowers on the cacti because sometimes you just need that sparkle!
I hope this card has been a great hug and thank you for reading!
Michelle