To You with Joy Clair Designs

 

Hello everyone!  I've had such a fun time creating with Joy Clair Designs

this month as Guest Designer!  Today I'm sharing:

To You

This digistamp set is simply gorgeous!  It's very plain and simple, but it's

so beautiful!  I kept my card simple and, if you know me at all, I like lots

of color...so sometimes designs call for something more on the softer side.

Let me show you how I made my card!  I first composed my design. in

the computer so it would fit onto a mini slimline.  I printed it out onto

Altenew 140lb Watercolor Paper.

I wanted to keep things simple so I used my Iuile Watercolor Dot

Cards to paint the blossom with.

I used a yellow and pink for my color palette and I was going for

something that matched the gold shimmer paper I was using for

my background.

The stem and leaves are solid (black in my case).  I carefully went

over these with a rose gold shade.  I didn't go right to the edges as

I wanted to retain some of the black, but just. enough to give the

leaves some color.  I knew I wanted the framework to be gold.  So

my first thought was to use a Gelly Roll Pen in Gold.  It was too

thick and I thought I had ruined my card, but then I remembered I

had gold peel-offs from Love From Lizi.  These look fantastic and

covered where the pen was misbehaving!

I also placed one of these at the top to make it look like it was

hanging.  I made a mini slimline card base from white card

stock.  I like my bases to measure 3" x 6 1/4".  I covered it

with gold shimmer paper.  I like this as an alternative to

full on glitter paper.

As a final embellishment I placed a small gem in a pink/yellow

hue at the top and bottom of the frame.  My colored panel was

1/4" smaller than the card base.  And that finished my card!

I hope you've enjoyed today's tutorial and will give it a try!

I've had an enjoyable month Guest Designing for

Joy Clair Designs

Find this digital stamp and many more on the website!

Thanks so much for stopping by!

Betsy