I am super pleased with this card for two reasons: 1) it's improvised, I don't have any hydrangea stamps or dies and 2) I used scraps from the card I made for this week's color challenge. When I finished the color challenge I had a light purple and light blue cardstock odds and ends after doing a lot of die cutting for my card. I grabbed the three flower punch and punched out as many little flowers as I could to get all the possible use out of my scraps, and piled the flowers in the container I use to collect these kinds of small scraps. So they were still out and in view on the desk when I saw this inspiration from today's Inspiration Challenge:
I immediately knew I wanted to use my little blue and purple flowers to try to create a hydrangea. I picked some hydrangea-leaf-like dies and die cut the solid part of the leaf from lighter green cardstock, and the skeleton part from darker and glued the leaves together. I cut a rectangle of white cardstock slightly smaller than my card front and cut a scrap of the green cardstock to make a stem, which I glued in place along with the leaves.
To make the flower top, I started with a 2" circle punched from the light purple cardstock, then layered the purple flowers onto it to make a flower base that was a little larger than the circle. Then I folded the petals upwards on each blue flower and attached a tiny gem sticker to the center of each. Then I glued these to the flower base and glued the whole thing to the top of the stem. I attached this card front to the base card with double stick tape and finished by stamping the greeting in the upper corner.
So many times I have an idea for a card that I attempt and it doesn't turn out and is never seen here, so I absolutely love it when an idea I have in my head turns out the way I visualized it!
USEIT2023: lots and lots of paper scraps, used an older paper punch and used up a bunch of the tiniest size of clear gem stickers (which I thought I'd never have a use for), plus used the leaf dies for the first time.
Date: Saturday, January 28, 2023 GMT Views: 288
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Registered: February 5, 2007 Location: St. Louis, MO Posts: 92560
Sun, Jan 29, 2023 @ 4:29 AM
Your hydrangea is beautifully done using die cuts. Has such dimension in the way you cupped the flowers. Lots of patience to place the gems in the flower centers. Impressive card!