Today I'm sharing a slightly-shabby, mildly-mixed-media card featuring Lili of the Valley products. I've seen variations of this layout design used a lot for 12 x 12 scrapbook layouts and mixed media canvases, and I thought it would make a fun design on a smaller square card, also. I blended strips of paper from three different LOTV paper pads - Heartfelt, Always & Forever, and Always & Forever - Solids ...
The background is made by using gesso and tulle on 140-lb. mixed media paper, and once they dried, spritzing with watercolor sprays...
I cut two of the leafy branch dies, one darker to become the "shadow" of the lighter, brighter green branch...
The premade roses are accented with handmade die-cut cherry blossom flowers...
The sentiment stamp is one I've used several times before, from Set 62, Quotables/Friendship. This time, I stamped one of the corners from Set 21, Grunge Corners as an accent...
And to accent the lower corner of the card, another corner stamp - this time from Set 68, Corners ...
Supplies:
LOTV Patterned Papers: Heartfelt, Always & Forever, and Always & Forever-Solids collections
LOTV Stamps: Set 62 Quotables/Friendship; Set 68 Corners; Set 21, Grunge Corners
Dies: La-La Land Crafts Cherry Blossom Florals; Poppy Stamps Massa Leaf Background
Roses: Wild Orchid Crafts Pearls: Recollections
Color Mediums: Lindy's Stamp Gang Flat Fabios - Pink Ladies Pink, Greased Lightnin' Green
Miscellaneous: mixed media paper, gesso, tulle, cheesecloth
There's some great products up on the LOTV site these days...Inktense pencil sets and papers, XL art pads, and a whole section devoted to soon-to-be-retired rubber stamps. And if that's not enough, check out the great pricing on all stamps on the site until Christmas!
Thanks for stopping by to visit today...have a wonderful weekend!
Oh this is sooooo beautiful Kathy! I adore the fresh colours and the yummy layers and all the fab detail. Just lovely. x
ReplyDeleteReally pretty, love the softness of the water color on your background and the flowers are gorgeous!
ReplyDeleteWhat a stunning looking card Kathy. Love the layers, the colours, everything...wow.
ReplyDeleteGreetings Miranda
Kathy this is amazing and so beautiful!! I love the papers you chose to put together and with the lovely background and gorgeous embellishments it makes up one beautiful card!!
ReplyDeleteHugs,
Marjorie x