Made By Mandy: OSAAT #207 Flowers

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Flowers

Our sponsor this week is Stitchy Bear’s Digi Outlet and there is a fabulous prize of $9 to spend in the store for the lucky winner who uses a

Stitchy Bears Store image.

Please head on over to the Stitchy Bear’s Digi Outlet to check out all the lovely digis on offer from our great designers. There are some freebies available and there is a selection of cut price Monthly Specials that change often, there really is so much to choose from thanks to our very talented designers.

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For this card I used the beautiful image

Rose & Butterfly Frame 2 from Delicious Doodles

The card was for Mother’s Day for my Mother in Law. It was a sombre day as her own Mother has just passed away at the grand old age of 101. As a result I wanted to make something that was pretty but quite subtle in colouring. It almost felt wrong to celebrate our Mom whilst she had just lost her own only a few days before L

In a very rare move for me I chose the background paper 1^st and then I coloured the image in with Promarkers and Flexmarkers to match the colours in the paper. There are 3 layers to the image the first being the whole image with a Mother’s Day sentiment added. The second is the whole frame which has been cut out to reveal the sentiment. The 3^rd layer is the frame, roses only and the butterfly with the wings folded up. I used 3d foam to mount the layers. You can see this all in more detail below.

The white card base has been covered with a lovely patterned paper a very old Hot off the Press paper pad. I added a lace trim from my stash and a beautiful butterfly die cut. I used a die which was a magazine freebie and added some self adhesive pearls down the centre. As a final touch I added some Stickles glitter glue to the darker areas of the roses and the butterfly.

There are so many beautiful floral images in the store and of course so many ways to add flowers to a card, they are one of my most favourite aspects of making cards.

Materials Used in this Project are as follows:-

Card size – A5

Digi Image – Rose & Butterfly Frame 2 from Delicious Doodles

Paper – Hot off the Press HOTP

Digital Sentiment – Digital Delights by LoubyLou

Embellishments – lace, self adhesive pearls, Stickles glitter glue

Tools – Letraset Promarkers & Flexmarkers, Butterfly die magazine freebie

Techniques - Decoupage

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