The Floral Romance Suite is one of my favourite product lines in the new Occasions Catalogue.
I designed these cards and little bag from one sheet of the patterned paper from the Floral Romance Specialty Designer Series Paper for our recent Stamparoo's Camp at York. I also used part of one of the printed Vellum Sheets (I love these sheets) to fussy cut the flowers and leaves that I have used as embellishments.
It all started with this card that I made for a recent Freshly Made Sketches Challenge. I love the rich colours of the designer series paper, and the woodgrain pattern on the reverse makes it ideal for a one sheet wonder as it gives you so many options.
The little bag I found on Pinterest but could not work out who actually designed it, so apologies for not giving credit where it is due. The original little bag was a lot shorter, however I wanted a size to fit a bar of my homemade soap so I played around with the sizing until I got the size I wanted.
I have done a mix of watercolouring with ink pads and an aquapainter, watercolour pencils and an aquapainter and also the Stampin' Blends. This gives a good contrast across the cards and also provides a medium that people are happy using to colour the images.
This card is actually the last card I made, I had 3 small pieces of patterned paper left so this is the card layout that I designed to use them up. No waste here.
In designing my cards I was trying to use all the products in the suite as I felt it would make a great product based class. On this card I have used the Lace Dynamic Textured Impressions Embossing Folder to emboss the card front.
This card shows the great use of the other side of the designer series paper. This card is quite simply to make with some fussy cutting for the vellum flowers and leaves, stamping and die cutting.
On this card I used an actual full strip of the designer series paper, however if you only had small pieces left you could still do this design and you only need to tuck the pieces behind the centre panel, they do not need to go all the way across.
This card shows another use for the lattice edging die.
I have used Basic Black as mats throughout the cards as it provides a contrast that highlights the other colours in the cards.
If you live in Australia
you can get all the supplies you need
for this project from me.
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Thank you for visiting.
Carolyn
