I am very late to send a thank you card for the couple who loaned us their home in Honolulu during our vacation a couple weeks ago. But I figure better late than never, right?! XD
I had purchased the Heartfelt Creations Tropical Hibiscus stamp and die set and knew this would be perfect for the Hawaiian thank you card. Based on what I’d learned at the class I took from Heartfelt Creations at the Scrapbook Expo, I knew I could easily color, cut, and emboss (mold) these flowers easily and quickly for wow results.
First I stamped out the flowers in Ranger Watermelon Adirondack Pigment Ink and the leaves with the MFT Green Monster Pigment Ink. Then I used finger daubers to quickly color the flowers with Tim Holtz Distress Inks in Picked Raspberry, Squeezed Lemonade and Mustard Seed and the leaves with Mowed Lawn. Having the dies made cutting everything out super fast and easy too.
Then I spritzed some water on the backs of each of the flowers and used the rounded end of a Sakura Gelly Roll pen to mold the flat flower petals and stamen into rounded, dimensional flowers. Although hibiscus usually are single layer flowers, I thought these would look more lush with two layers so I cut the smaller stamen off of the smaller flowers and layered them on top of the larger flowers. To add some texture and interest, I glued pearl white Prills to the centers of the flowers and to the rounded ends of the stamen.
Then to add a little interest but still leave the primary focus on the flowers, I decided to get out my Avery Elle Dotted Dies set. I used the rectangle and one large fishtail banner and used them to cut down layering pieces of white card stock. I then took my time and threaded through pink embroidery floss. I love the homemade look that this little bit of stitching brings. I popped up each of these stitched layers with some thin fun foam to add a little stability and dimension to the card base to compliment the super dimensional flowers. Lastly, I inked up a scrap of white card stock with more Tim Holtz Distress Ink in Picked Raspberry and die cut the small “Thanks” word die from that to match the color of the flowers.
The following is a tutorial video sharing how to make these dimensional flowers:
This card is being entered into the following challenges:
Addicted to CAS Stitched Challenge
Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Anything Goes Challenge
Word Art Wednesday Anything Goes Challenge
Just Keep on Crafting Anything Goes Challenge
Craft Your Passion Anything Goes Challenge
Through the Craft Room Door Anything Goes Challenge
Not Just Cards Anything Goes Challenge
Creatalicious Anything Goes Challenge
WOW! This is fabulous. I can’t even begin to tell you how grateful I am to have you share your talents with us. Your card is beyond beautiful, and I love seeing your amazing cards linked with us. Blessings to you for a wonderful week.
Karen
Word Art Wednesday
Thank you so much for your incredibly kind and uplifting comment, Karen! I feel so blessed to be part of the Word Art Wednesday community. Hugs and blessings to you and yours, Kristina
The stitched edge looks superb! Such a pretty card, thank you for sharing with ATCAS
Thanks so much Deepti! It was fun to finally get to use that dotted dies set and try a little stitching on these cards. 🙂 tfstopping by, hugs, Kristina
Wow,what a gorgeous card Kristina! Love the flowers,your colours,everything!
Thank you so much Ann! I can’t take credit for the color combo–that’s mother nature. 😀 lol TFStopping by and always leaving such sweet comments! Hugs, Kristina
Lovely card thanks for sharing with Creatalicious Rachel DT
Thank you so much Rachel! This was a fun card to make–I don’t usually make flowers, but I think I will more going forward since they’re so much easier than I thought! LOL 🙂
Such a stunning looking card, adore your design and flowers.
Awww thank you so much Aileen! This was a really fun and fast card to make. I know I’ll me making more paper flowers after this experience. 🙂 TFStopping by and leaving such a sweet comment! Hugs, Kristina
Your flowers are gorgeous and look real enough to need watering! Can’t believe they would be easy! Thanks for sharing at Word Art Wednesday. May God bless you this week.
Christine
Guest Designer
Oh you are so sweet, Christine! LOL In fact the little spritz of water on the back of these die cut flowers helps make the hand embossing super fast and easy. 🙂 TFStopping by and leaving me such sweet crafty love! Big hugs, Kristina
WOW those flowers look amazing, fabulous card.
Thank you for joining us at Simon says Stamp Wednesday Challenge.
Luv
Debby
Thanks so very much Debby! I really appreciate you taking the time to leave a sweet comment. Big hugs, Kristina
A wonderful card!
Thank you soo much for taking part in our “anything goes with optional pick a tune” challenge over at Creatalicious & good luck in the draw.
Hope to see you again in our new challenge as well…
Hugs,
Melanie
(DT-Coordinator Creatalicious Challenges)
(DT Crafty Friends)
(DT The Sketchy Challenges)
PS: Sorry for the late comment, life had been very busy the past couple of weeks…
Thanks for taking the time to support all of us participating in your challenges. Big hugs, Kristina