I'm running behind on my Teapot Tuesday challenge this week, but I finally finished my card last night. This week's recipient is a lovely lady whose husband died last year and she needs some cheering up. We were asked to make "thinking of you" cards with flowers, and perhaps a butterfly or two. After I went to bed last night I realized I forgot the butterflies! So I will add a couple to the inside liner of my card before mailing it to her.
This card is 3" x 5 3/8", a rather odd size, but I liked the way it worked for my design.
I started by stamping my image and sentiment in StazOn Timber Brown on watercolor paper, then I watercolored my image. I attached the stamped panel to a piece of brown card stock and trimmed to fit. I made a card base from some lightly textured dark green card stock and cut a smaller piece of the same card stock to put in the middle section of my stamped panel. I embossed the smaller green piece using the Square Lattice embossing folder, then adhered it to my watercolored panel. I wrapped jute around the center section and secured it with a decorative brad. (The brad is a bit bulky and heavy so I also used a mini glue dot to hold it in place.) I attached the panel to my card base and added a liner to the inside for writing.