Elegance & Caring: Handmade With Love

Dec 9

Are you ready? A new release is here! This one is full of amazing patterns, lovely flowers, and some always needed care and support sentiments.

Techniques:

This card combines three of the new products, and seems a perfect way to introduce the release.
The gorgeous flower is one of the stamps from the Long Line Lillies. I stamped it in Eggplant on Lilac cardstock, and used the coordinating stencils to add just a touch of subtle color on some of the leaves and petals. Stencils are included for all of it, and it is gorgeous when colored in fully, but I wanted a more minimal color approach here to keep the focus on the lines.

I knew the stitched pattern border from the Handmade With Love stamps would work well with the lily, so I created a border using one of the stamps on some Midnight cardstock. I positioned it in the corner, stamped a section of it and added embossing power to that, and then moved the stamp and completed the frame. (I did end up with a small gap in my pattern, but knew I could easily hide that with the floral placement. You don’t even see it on the final product.) The frame ended up being a little shorter than the length of my A2 car, so I trimmed it down to create a lovely inset and mat between the two cardstock layers. (If I’d wanted it to fill the A2, I’d have just started with a larger margin around the stamp. I’d recommend stamping on a slightly larger piece of cardstock, and then you can trim it down as you like around the stamped pattern.)