TFJB Inspiration Ave: Janna's April Flowers

Friday, April 5, 2024

Janna's April Flowers

This week at the TFJB Inspiration Ave we are creating to the theme of “The Flowers Are Coming.” Here I thought I would try a new style of card. Below I have created a blooming pop up card with gorgeous flowers form the Sizzix TH Artsy Stem set.

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To start off this card, I cut some grey blue Sizzix textured cardstock at 8.5in x 5.5in as a card base.

Then I cut a sheet for the interior of the card at 5in x 4.5in from some white cardstock.

Each paper was folded in half. On the smaller page I drew a 3in line about 2/3 down the centre line. I then drew a second line an inch and a half lower. This will become the cut line for the pop up element.

I then cut alone the top and bottom lines of the rectangle that I drew on the card lining.

Then I cut three small cuts at the top of each folded line. These will become elements for a 3D box that will later hold flowers.

Below are the cut line results and the pop up box. After all the cutting was done I then used ATG tape to stick the card lining with pop up element into the card base.

On the front of the card I added a 5.5in x 4.25 metalic kraft stock panel.

Next we will start working on the main background of the card. Here I decided to do some ink blending with a stencil and the inks Mermaid Lagoon, Squeezed Lemonade, and Picked Raspberry.

The Stampers Anonymous TH stencil I am using is mosaic THS084. I blended the inks in with the TH Tiny Blending Tools.

Below are the blended results.

I then added some spritzes of water to create a distressed look and further blend together the inks.

Next I added some jute string and a floral embellishment to the front of the card. I wrapped the string around the watercolor cardstock base and then taped the ends in the back. The flower was made out of ultra thick embossing powder and distress glazes.

For a sentiment I stamped out hello spring from the bunny hop clear TH stamp set. The sentiment was stamped with distress archival Black Soot.

Now onto some floral fun. I diecut a dozen floral elements from Artsy Stems and distress white cardstock.

I then colored the florals with Distress Mica Crayons and smudged out the colors.

Below are the finished floral results with the Distress Mica Crayons. For colors I used: Yuletide, Cocktail Party, Harvest Moon, Unraveled, Jack-o-Lantern, Merry Mint, Tree Lot, Snow Flurries, and Fortune Teller.

Once all the flowers were colored I trimmed the stems and carefuly set the flowers into the dimensional box. I used tape on the inside of the box to secure the flowers inside.