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I began these cards by prepping the backgrounds on some watercolor cardstock. Background panels were made by painting on watered down distress ink in chipped sapphire. Watercolor panels were dried using a heat tool between layers. Once panels were complete and dry, I ran them though my Minc machine on setting one to flatten them out. If you have a laminator this would also work. If you don’t have a minc, you could help prevent warping by taping down your watercolor cardstock to a board. Panels could also be flattened by placing them in a heavy book. Once the panels were complete, they were trimmed down to varying sizes all slightly smaller than an A2 card panel.
Next, I prepped the washi tape for die cutting. I unrolled the Pinkfresh Studio Indigo Vines washi and stuck it down to some 110lb cardstock and ran it though my Gemini die cutting machine using the coordinating Indigo Vines die. I also die cut some plain white cardstock with the die so that I could stack up the images for some added dimension. I also die cut some of the smaller images from some gold foil cardstock to add some shine and interest to a few of the cards.
I did a mix of embossed happy birthdays using the Pinkfresh Studios Happy Birthday Sentiments stamps and coordinating dies. For the sentiments on the white cardstock, I first stamped in Stargazer Ink from Pinkfresh Studios and very quickly sprinkled some Simon Says Stamp detail clear embossing powder over the top. For the sentiments using the navy cardstock, the sentiment was stamped using versamark ink with Hero Arts gold embossing powder on top. Sentiments were then die cut using the coordinating dies. I also die cut a few extra happy birthday dies from both the white and navy cardstock to stack up my sentiments for some fun dimension.
A2 card bases were prepped out of some Nautical Hero Arts 110lb cardstock. I cut the cardstock in half at 5.25 inches and scored the cardstock along the 8.5 inch side at 4.25 inches. Watercolor panels were adhered to the card bases with foam tape.
The wreath cards were adhered together using some Tombow mono multi liquid glue.
For the cards with the vines in the opposite diagonal corners, I first glued some offset gold foil die cuts to each of the vine images. The first layer and the sentiment were adhered to the card base using tombow mono multi liquid glue. I added some additional dimension to the top layer of the images by adding some foam tape.
To finish off the cards, a mix of flat gems from Ink Road and some miscellaneous flat backed silver pearls were adhered to some of the card projects.
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