card making

Hello, this is Diane here with a card for you!

Flooding season has officially arrived here and this year it’s been awful, even more than usual. Reading on the hydrangea, I learned that the name is derived from Greek and means ‘water vessel’, which is in reference to the shape of its seed capsules. With this post, I wish to extend my compassion to everyone who feels heartaches having to deal with an infuriated Mother Nature and I’m offering them those mini water vessels.

Here are the steps to make this card:

Step 1: Card base

• Use a piece of White Soft Finish Cardstock, 12 X 6, folded in half to make a 6 X 6 card.
• With a purple patterned paper, cute a square piece 5 1/2 X 5 1/2.

• Die cut a circle with the the largest die of the Dotted Scallop Circles (#1172) dies set, in a purple cardstock.

• Die cut a second circle with the the second largest die of the Stitched Circles (#1116) dies set, in a piece of White Soft Finish Cardstock

• Using the same purple cardstock as for the first circle, die cut the Flower Lace 2 (#1383).

• With some Double Sided Adhesive Tape and some Kids Choice Glue, adhere all the layers on top of each other, like shown in the next picture.

• And here’s the final card base:

Step 2 Hydrangea

For a very detailed and wonderful video from Susan Tierney Cockburn on how to create those forgeous flowers, I invite you to watch the video on the link here.

• Using the die set Garden Notes Hydrangea 2 (#1293), die cut 6 times the center that will be use for the base of each of the three flowers, in a green cardstock.
• With the medium size ball stylus (from the 4 Pieces All Metal Tool Set), on the Molding Pad, create a dome with each of the 6 pieces.
  
• Glue the bases two by two, using a toothpick and some Kids Choice Glue, to get 3 final center pieces.
• Cut the stem off, we do not use them for this card.

• Ink up some White Soft Finish Cardstock using some Oxide Ink, (here I used some Dusty Concord), dabbing very lightly the dauber on both side of the cardstock.
• Die cut the 4 times the plate of little flowers on the inked cardstock.

• Shape the little flowers on a Molding Pad. with the smallest ball stylus, wrong side up, on each of the 4 tips of the flowers.
• Turn the flowers on the right side and cup up with the same stylus.

• Glue the green domes on the card base and had the little flowers to cover the domes.
• With a make-up applicator, had some shading in the heart of some flowers, with the Bright Yellow Green Shades Pan Pastel.
• Add a very small touch of glue here and there in some centers of the flowers and sprinkle some small green prills.

• Using some green cardstock, die cut the leaves 5 or 6 times each.
• On the Leaf Pad, with the leaf tool, draw some vein on the wrong side.
• Bent the leaves and add some Bright Yellow Green Pan Pastel on the vein with a make-up applicator.
• Add some shading with a dark green ink on the edges of each leaf.
• On the Molding Pad, give some dimension to the leaves by rubbing them on the tip with the medium ball stylus.
• Glue them on the project.

And here’s a closer look at the final project:

I really hope you like this tutorial, thanks for visiting!

Diane Prince

Other Products used on this card:

Bazzill Avocado Green Cardstock, Bazzill Nelly Cardstock, Distress Oxide – Dusty Concord and Forest Moss