Jasmine

Good morning, It's Tuesday already! How come Monday's always go faster when they are a holiday!

Today's card uses the Jasmine dies from Susan's Garden Notes at Elizabeth Craft Designs. Unfortunately these dies have all now been discontinued but I love them so will still be using them in my cards.

What I Did:

 I began by making the flowers. I repeatedly cut the flowers from white cardstock, Colored with Pan Pastels and shaped to give a realistic look.
The leaves were again cut and shaped using Pan Pastel and ink to shade these.
I assembled the flowers, using fake pollen to again give a more lifelike feel to them. They were then arranged with the leaves onto a white die cut frame and allowed to dry. My card base was matted with the same green card used for the leaves and a piece of design paper which I felt helped draw the eye to the flowers.
 I stamped and heat embossed my sentiment, die cut this into a tag. My flower frame was adhered to the card and sentiment placed to balance the design.

The flower do give your cards some great dimension:

What I Used:

Elizabeth Craft Designs: Susan's Garden Notes Jasmine Dies

Pan Pastels: Tonic Susan's Garden Club collection

Pollen: Tonic, Susan's Garden Club

White cardstock for flowers: Top Flight 82lb

White card stock for card base and frame: Core'dinations Premium 

Green cardstock: Core'Dinations

Design Paper: Lili of the Valley (Retired)

Sentiment: Altenew: Sunflower Daisy stamp set

Embossing Ink: Versafine

Embossing Powder: Copper Kate White fine detail

Sentiment die: unknown

I am entering this card into the following challenges:

  The Flower Challenge: Add leaves

  A bit More time to Craft: Anything goes

  Crafty Hazelnut's Patterned Paper: Use patterned paper

Thanks for stopping by and if you love what you see please leave a comment to let me know