Magnolia Vs Stampavie - Week 11

Hi all

This weeks challenge set by those lovely ladies over at Magnolia Vs Stampavie is called Double Trouble. This means you have to use not one, but a minimum of two stamps from the current list.

I have gone rather over the top on this project, but I love it, and it was great to do something different for a change.

I call it 'The Magnolia Garden'........This design is based on a Free Standing Pop Up Card I found on Splitcoast Stampers. It looks complicted because of all the decoration. But the base card is incredibly easy to make.

I made the base card in Colour Core Bazzill, and used one tiny piece of background paper for the stand up card at the back. Can't remember the name of it unfortunately, but you can use anything to match your theme.

I used two Magnolia Tilda's, and the Magnolia stone steps, right at the back. The images were coloured with Copic's, and highlighted with an opaque white Inkessentials pen. A touch of crystal glitter was used on the heart and wings of the two Tilda's.

Once I'd placed the two Tilda's where I wanted them, I got to work on the 'gardening'. And I must say, this is the type of gardening I love....no back ache or dirty fingers, just sheer pleasure.

I used Prima flowers of course, and small pink paper roses from my stash, with a tiny dot of gold pearly paint in the centre. I coloured some strips of cheap old copy paper with a green Copic, and cut slits in them almost to the bottom. I then rolled and folded them up, trimmed them to different lengths, and glued them in behind the various flowers to look like clumps of grass.

Then I thought about the 'Sweet Pea Flower Soft' I had languishing in the drawer unused since I bought it a year ago. So I plopped down some glue, and sprinkled a little Flowersoft in the gaps, to look like the flowers are creeping along naturally.

And as I'm really into butterflies at the moment, I stamped and coloured three of them. Stuck them onto the design, and blinged them up with tiny crystals.

You should be able to get these cards in envelopes if you keep the embelishments down, but this one would definately need a box, and it would look so pretty in an acetate box to match I think.

Hope you enjoyed looking. Why not have a go yourself, if you leave me a comment to say you've made one, I'll come and take a look.

Happy Crafting