Mothers Day Card Idea -  Watercolour Flowers

Posted on 21st March 2017 by Nicole Mullen
Filed under Seasonal Crafts, Seasonal Crafts, Seasonal Crafts, Seasonal Crafts, Mothers Day Crafts

Hi everyone,

It's Nicole here today to share a Mothers Day card with you to get you inspired on your card making for that important day! For this project I used:

• Papermilldirect Navy Plain Card
• Papermilldirect Rich Cream Linen Card
• Stamping Bella Floral Stamp
• Kuratake Watercolours
• Martha Stewart Score Board
• Altenew Label Love stamp set
• Stitched Frame Die Set

I started off gathering the basics I wanted to use on my card. I used a kraft card base, navy card, cream linen card (not in this picture) a yellow striped tag - repurposed from an item of clothing- and my image that I coloured to match the tag and the navy card. 

I felt that the navy looked a bit too plain on the background of the card and I needed to add something to it. I don't have any square embossing folders, nor did I want to stencil on it. So I decided to use my score board to add some diagonal lines on it. Papermilldirect card is brilliant for scoring as it is so thick the card doesn't break.My score-board has a corner add-on to allow me to make envelopes, which makes doing diagonal lines really easy. But I have it placed in the middle of the board here on a sample piece of card, to show you that you could just as easily do it on a regular score-board, just make sure you keep it held in place. I start from the top corner of my page and then work from the left and then the right of this line to make sure my lines are all evenly spaced. I chose to score every 4 lines apart. But you pick what you are happiest with spacing wise.

You can rotate the page and repeate the process to get a diamond pattern if you like too.

I then used my diagonal pattern navy background, layered a stitched die cut cream linen shape on top of it and layered all of my elements on top of it. I found that Chipped Saphire distress ink matched the navy card well on a double stamping of it for my sentiment.

Here you can see a close up of the scored background. It is a very simple tip but one that adds brilliant detail to your cards if you are looking for that something extra.

I hope you get inspired to give this technique a try and make sure to share your results with us over on the Facebook page!

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