Vintage Leopard Flower Card

I thought I would start off today by posting a card that I made.  The materials and directions are below. If you have any questions, please comment and I will do my best to answer.



Materials:

Paper:

American Craft Cardstock –AC Cardstock – Butter (5 ½” x 8 ½”)

Bazzill Basics Monochromatic 5-color packs - Browns (5 ¼” x 4” Java)

Gold Glossy Cardstock (4” x 5”) Foil Coated Gold 8.5"x11"

Shimmering Metallics (Text Weight) Gold (5” x 3 ¾”)

Chita Print Fabric or paper

Embellishments:

SEI Morning Brads SEI-B-morning

Prima Country Elegance – Fuschia

Bazzill Paper Flowers 3" Gerbera Brisbane

Tim Holtz Tissue Tape Symphony 

Tools:

Paper Trimmer – Fiskars

Making Memories The Slice

Slice Design Card Vintage Findings

Sizzix Big Shot (or other die cutting machine)

Tim Holtz Tattered Flowers Die

Tim Holtz Texture Fades Bingo & Patchwork (I used Patchwork)

Inks and Powders:

Ranger Archival Plum

Directions:

1. Fold your white cardstock in half to form your card base.  The card opens on the right. Set aside.
2. Emboss the gold shimmer paper using Patchwork texture fade by Tim Holtz.
3. Using direct to paper technique, lightly brush Archival ink Plum over the embossed images. 
1. You do not want to cover everything completely.  Brush lightly so that some areas get ink while others remain plain.
4. Dry with a heat gun.
5. Edge the embossed gold with tissue tape.
6. Attach your gold paper to the Bazzill java cardstock.
7. Attach this piece to your card base.
8. To make your flowers:
1. First die cut one set of tattered flowers in chita print paper or cloth.  You will only be using three of the flowers that are cut out.
2. Punch a small hole in the middle of each of the three tattered florals.
3. Stack your large flower: smallest chita floral, larger pink petal, largest chita flora, purple Bazzill flower. (You will want to stack them so that the petals are staggered so you can see them all.)
4. Use a brad to secure the flowers together.
5. The smaller flower has only three layers: two small pink flowers and one chita print flower. Use a brad to secure these together also.
9. I used the Slice and Vintage Findings card to cut out a swirl from gold glossy cardstock.  If you have Tim Holtz die Elegant Flourishes, you can use this as a substitute.
10. You are ready to add the flowers to your card. 
1. I started by attaching the largest flower to the card with glue dots.
2. Then I arranged the gold flourish so that it went among the petals of the flower (see photo).
3. Lastly, I added the smaller flower.
4. Note how I have the top part of the swirl on top of a couple of the small flower petals.
11. Both the flowers and the flourish overlap all the edges on the card.

I really wanted to do a card a little more on the wild side.  I found this chita print cloth and thought what a fun thing to make some flowers out of!  You may have some printed fabric that you may want to use as flowers too! Thanks for stopping by!