Sunday 5 February 2017

Partial Cut Flowers

Hi and welcome!  It's time for another challenge from the team at The Flower Challenge and this month we have a treat for you!  It's our Case the Designer challenge and the designer is the amazing Therese Calvird.  Check out this amazing card:

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There is so much to be inspired by on Therese's card - the floral die, negative die cut, pink, ombre, the gorgeous soft background behind the die-cut, the layout...  I was inspired by the layout and the pinks.  I also used the same sentiment but in a different way.



I white-embossed a text stamp onto a panel of watercolor paper and watercolored with distress inks.  I then adhered that to the card base.  The top panel was die-cut with the Partial Cut Flowers die and added with foam tape.  I popped up the petals so you can see the watercolored panel underneath.   Here are a couple more photos so you can see the real effect of the flowers.









Thanks for visiting.  The rest of the DT have some beautiful cards so I hope you'll check them out and also pay a visit to Therese's gorgeous blog.


Products used:

Stamps:  Amazing (MFT), Trendsetters Background (Unity)
Ink:  Versamark, Tattered Rose, Spun Sugar & Worn Lipstick Distress Inks
Cardstock:  White, watercolor, black, pink
Dies:  Partial Cut Flowers (SSS), Doubly Amazing (MFT)
Accessories:  White EP

Cheers
Karren


14 comments:

Viv said...

This is so soft and pretty Karren! love the 'popped' out flowers, how clever. That ombre sentiment and black and white one sets it all off so beautifully too ;) hugs Viv xx

lostinpaper said...

ooh, I adore these partial cut flowers, it's fabulous to be able to see the colour peeking out from behind, what a glorious design!

Barb Ghig said...

Gorgeous take on Therese' card, Karren! I love how your pink watercolored panel is peeking through the pop-up flowers and your sentiment couldn't be more perfect...beautiful ombre effect! Love this card!

Kim S said...

Gorgeous!! Love the flowers and the hint of pattern underneath, the shading on the sentiment and the bit of black!

I Card Everyone said...

What a perfectly beautiful way to use all those papers we have, right? So beautiful, Karren! Another die set to yearn for!
=]

Petra Swart said...

Oh, WOW, those partial cut flowers are absolutely stunning, Karen!!!! What a great CASE of the inspiration card!!! So beautiful!!!!!
Have a great week!!!!!
Hugz

TaeEun said...

This is a fabulous CAS card design and wonderful CASE of Therese's card, Karren! Love the partial die cut flowers and your watercolor panel under it!

Aileen said...

Beautiful card Karren, another one of those dies I just need to badly, its only my list. Love how you have done it with the panel behind, loos wonderful.

Ruth said...

That's amazing!!! I love the stamping underneath whcih you can only just see behind the partial cut flowers. Such a brilliant CASE! xx

Maria Rodriguez. said...

WOW!! Karren, this is a beautiful CASE of Theresa's card, love the way the soft pink water colored paper peeks just enough from under the die cut flowers, to give your design a soft pinkish glow.
Beautiful CASE.
Hugs,
Maria.

Susi said...

The partial die-cutting is a great way to let the colours "peek" through - really ties in perfectly with the sentiment diecut too!

Karen Dunbrook said...

I just love how your card turned out...I ended up casing the layout more then the colour I guess. I'm not good with casing!
xx Karen

Rosemary said...

so very pretty, karren... love those pop up flowers!!

Karen Davis said...

I agree with all the comments above. This is an amazing design. The partial cut flowers with the colour peeking through is such a great effect, and I can imagine gives great shadowing in certain lights too. So clever!