Sweet Peas

A great new addition to Susan's Garden Club die sets is the Sweet Pea.  (Links to all  Susan's new Garden Club Spring release die sets are at the end of this post.)

For this card, ten bright pink Sweet Pea flowers were created.  Before arranging on the card, the background was created.

Using a piece of white card stock, Spellbinders Diamonetta Background Glimmer Plate was used to gold foil the design.  This is a narrow background Glimmer Plate, but very easy to repeat the design as many times as you want.  I used the Spellbinders Quick Trimmer for Foil to cut the gold foil to fit the Glimmer Plate.  Once it was hot on the Spellbinders Hot Glimmer Foil Machine, it was run through the Platinum 6 die cutting machine to press the foil into the card stock.  A piece of gold mirror card stock was cut to fit behind the foiled piece before attaching  to the card.  

Using Susan's Sweet Pea die set, all the pieces were die cut using her White Specialty Card Stock.  This card stock is the perfect weight for shaping the flowers.  I used the Picket Fence Blender Brushes to brush on the ink.  I love to use the Waffle Flower Water  Media Mat to place the die cut on because the mat holds the pieces in place while brushing on ink.  This mat cleans up easily between using different colors of ink.  The Sweet Pea die cuts were brushed with Distress Picked Raspberry Ink and the leaves and stems were brushed with Distress Mowed Lawn ink.  This die set does not come with stems, so I brushed a piece of white card stock with green ink, then using the Tim Holtz Trimmer, cut narrow strips.  Some of these strips were used for stems and some were used to create the curly vines. To create the curly vines, lightly spritz the narrow green strip with the mini mister and wrap around a pencil or other small item.  Gently pull the vine off and allow to dry before using, so it will hold its shape.   The branches were glued down on the left side of the card, the flowers attached, then the leaves and vines glued down.  

Susan's Foliage and Ladybugs dies set was used for the little ladybug you see on one of the bottom leaves.  It was die cut using white card stock, colored red with a marker, then a fine line black pen was used to add the center line and dots to her back.  Crystal Glaze was then added to give her a shine.

One the right side of the card, a Spellbinders Elegant Twist Circle was die cut.  One of Susan's Spring Quotes was stamped with VersaMark Ink and Gold Embossed.  This circle was attached to the right side of the card with dimensional squares. 

For final embellishment Spellbinders Fashion Gold Embellishments were added to the corners and under the gold embossed quote.