Floral Easter Cards

Well here's a first.... A batch of Easter cards and what's more, made well in advance rather than last minute. For these cards I used a retired set by Stampin' Up called  "Indescribable Gift." The Ombre background  was a free gift From Stampin' up during this year's sale a bration. To   be honest when I saw this paper in the catalogue I wasn't that impressed, but I thought I give it a try as it was free. I have to say....  I love it!!

I wasn't sure whether this blackberry colour would work with this stamp when I was making this card as it's not traditional Spring colours. But I like it. So then I went on to make another using the green Ombre and that works too.

Not wanting to use up the whole pack of these papers on this years Easter cards, I decided to make a few more cards using the same image, as I had coloured half a dozen images the night before. But I didn't want them all the same.  On the card below I fussy cut the image after I had coloured it. Then stuck it on navy card to really make it stand out. I added a layer of pink card behind the navy before sticking it to my base card. This is a bit of an odd size card as I cut the navy card a bit too short. So I added a thin pink ribbon and bow to fill in the excess white space.

Now this one was born out of a disaster. I hate wasting things so I thought I'd try something different. Hubby doesn't like this one he says it looks like it's been cut in half.  I tend to agree with him on this one. But I didn't say that, I tried to save face and said "yes, because the pattern continues round the back."

Does it!!?  he asks.....No not really, I had to confess, but it gave me an idea to make one where the image does wrap round the back. I 'll have to try it and see what it's like.                                                                                           Note the branch comes in from the side on this one.

The following three cards are very similar. They are clean and simple cards. But I have changed them up a bit.  I have changed the shape, the size or the colours of the layers of card under the images.

 The card below is 6 x 4 inches and mounted on to a chocolate brown card before being adhered to the white base card.                                                                                                                                              I had the branch come in from the top this time.

I changed the size and shape of the next card to a 6 x 6 inch card. I added two layers of card  beneath the image this time. One blue and one chocolate.

The card below has a wider pink layer and a narrow chocolate layer of card beneath. and the branch comes in from the other side this time.

I heat embossed the stamped image in gold before colouring on this one.  The sentiment is also heat embossed in gold. It doesn't show up very well in this photo.....

So here's a close up shot just to prove it.