Thursday, February 8, 2018

Petal Palette and Blends

You guys! How pretty is this card!  EEEEEK!  I love it!!!!  The Petal Palette Bundle is the BEST!  I'm so in love with it! There's so many elements going on with this card so let's dive right in.  First and foremost.  Obviously that flower is so pretty!  I colored it with a combination of Calypso Coral and Daffodil Delight Stampin' Blends.  I love the two tones of colors this gives and really brings life to the flowers! I colored the leaves with Old Olive with a little Daffodil Delight too, giving the leaves just as much depth of color.  LOVE!!!!  I did some partial die cutting on this card, meaning that I only cutout the right half of the flowers. Partial die cutting is a fancy technique that's actually really easy to achieve.  I placed the cardstock and paper on my magnetic platform as usual, the top plate is key with this technique.  I only placed the top plate about halfway over my image and then ran it through.  The framelit will only cut where there are two plates so the part that the top plate was covering cut the rest didn't.  
After you have your piece partially die cut just stick it in your trimmer and carefully trim the excess cardstock away.  You want to cut from the top down to where the cutting of the framelit started.  Then lift up your blade and cut up from the bottom stopping where the framelit cuts begin as well.  It's really easy and really makes your card stand out!  I finished the card with some stamped leaves and a greeting also from the Petal Palette stamp set.  Finally I added some DSP and a Baker's Twine bow.  Love this card! 

Thanks for looking, see you soon!!!

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