Spring Bling Card

by Lis Whiting

Materials

• Paper and Cardstock
• Bazzill Basics Trios 3-color packs, ( BB-TR-Aspen   $6.99)
• Aspen, cut to 6" x 12"
• Moss, cut to 5 1/2" x 5 1/2"
• Handmade Paper in beige, cut to 4 5/8" x 4 5/8"
• AC Cardstock - Lemon     ( AMC-CSP-71039   $0.50), cut to 4" x 4"
• Embellishments
• 1/8” Green Eyelets     ( AMC-MEYE-ever   $1.99)
• Clear and Green Rhinestones - 4mm, 5mm     ( KAI-PRL-714   $1.99)
• Ranger Distress Inks in Walnut Stain and Black Soot http://www.franticstamper.com/distress.htm (5.00 ea)
• Walnut Stain     ( RAN-DP-Walnut   $5.00)
• Black Soot     ( RAN-DP-Soot   $5.00)
• Tim Holtz Ink Blending Tool     ( RAN-TIM-Blend   $4.99)
• Non Stick Craft Sheet     ( suz-crftsht-sm   $8.99)
• Mini glue dots     ( GLUE-Mini   $3.99)
• Inkadinkado Dot Flourishes     ( INK-CS-97634   $9.99)
• prima flowers     ( of your choice )

Instructions

• Fold the dark green cardstock in half to make the base for your card. The final measurement should be 6" x 6".
• Stamp a flourish image on your yellow 4x4 cardstock using black soot. I decided to stamp my image from corner to corner.
  
  
  
  NOTE: There is also a set called Gemstone Flourishes ( INK-CS-98977   $9.99) which is equally gorgeous and could be used for this technique.


• Using an ink blending tool and a craft mat, blend walnut stain on the edges of the yellow card stock.




• Attach your pale green cardstock and your beige handmade paper together.


• Attach your yellow cardstock (with the points of the yellow cardstock pointing up and down) with eyelets in green.




• For the flowers I chose peach (larger) and lavender (smaller) four petal flowers from Prima. I attached them to each other using a gem brad.
• Attach your flowers to the card by using a gem brad before you glue your cardstock pieces to your card base.
• Add rhinestones to the flourishes.




• I added green rhinestones at the bottom so that it looked like leaves.
• I added clear rhinestones at the top to resemble flowers.
• You’re done!

I did another card with different colors so that you could see another way to do the card. This card is so easy to make and is really stunning too! I hope that you will try it out!