70 | Couture Creations

Well hello everyone, Anita here back on the blog today

Welcome back and HAPPY VALENTINE'S DAY 💖

Today I have a 70th birthday card that I made using the soon to be available L'AQUARELLE range.  I really love the script background papers so I just had to use some of them for this card.

For my card base I cut a piece of  Ultimate Crafts Cardstock in SNOW WHITE to 9.75" x 6.5 " scoring at 3.25".  The card front will be smaller at 3.25" and the back a 6.5" square. 
The smaller front card is cut from an 8.5" x 4.25"piece of SNOW WHITE cardstock scored at 4.25".
Next I selected CASCADE cardstock and mats for the patterned paper as follows:

one of 6.25"x6.25" - for inside back of card

two of 3"x 6.25" - for front and inside front of card

one of 4"x4" - front of smaller card

For the inside of the smaller card the VALENTINE shade of red in the Ultimate Crafts Cardstock matched perfectly to the red in the butterflies on the L'Aquarelle patterned papers.  For the mats I cut two 4" x 4" mats, and then one final 3.75" x 3.75" in the SNOW WHITE cardstock for the area to write the sentiment.

 Next I chose several of the patterned papers that had the script background.  I cut each of these 0.25" smaller that each of the coloured cardstock mats.  Adhere all with doubled side tape.

 The next couple of photo will show you how the card starts coming together.

 

Next I attached the smaller card to the right inside of the main card as in the picture below.

 

To finish the front of the card I inked up a piece of white seam binding with match blue and red inks and then sprayed it with water so that colours ran into each other.  I then blasted it with my heat gun to dry it quickly.

I gathered the ribbon up and twisted it into a bow and attached it with hot glue to the front of the card. I added a couple of flowers from my stash as I had run out of the Couture Creations bulk flowers and have yet to get some more.

The finishing touch to the card after the '70' was the gorgeous metal butterfly from the  

L'Aquarelle  collection.

I am really happy with the end result and I hope the birthday girl loves it too.

PRODUCTS USED

ULT200007 - Ultimate Craft Cardstock - Snow White

ULT200022 - Ultimate Craft Cardstock - Cascade

ULT200063 - Ultimate Craft Cardstock - Valentine

ULT157765 - L'Aquarelle - Large Butterfly & Dragonfly Charms

ULT157761 - L'Aquarelle - 12" x 12" paper stack

CO721985 - 6mm Double Sided Tape

Thank you for stopping by and checking out my card.  I hope you like it.

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L'Aquarelle Butterfly Card

Hi Guys,
HAPPY NEW YEAR,  
I am back again today to share with you my first creation using the L'Aquarelle range from Ultimate Crafts. This is a sneak peek for you all as this collection will be released at CHA January 19-23  

I needed to make a lovely birthday card and thought this range would be perfect.  The combination of the lovely watercolour papers matching with the gorgeous butterflies and birds makes it perfect for your cards and scrapbooking.
This range also has a beautiful 'card makers' range.

You're going to get excited about this new range.  It is so colourful and made for both
scrapbookers and cardmarkers.

To create my card I used Ultimate Crafts cardstock in Paper Bag and Leprechaun.  I used the Paper Bag for the card base and used the Leprechaun as the mat for the patterned paper.
 I love the patterned papers and chose to cut the corner portion of one of the 12x12 papers.
After making my Christmas cards I found I was short of glitter cardstock in gold so I decided to do the next best thing..... I used gold embossing powder, Couture Creations Embossing Powder in gold Super Sparkles and embossed the four edges of my patterned paper.
To do this I just used an off-cut of paper larger than my chosen patterned paper and held it at the width I like from the edge and dabbed my Versamark ink around the edge, and then heat embossed the gold powder.

Didn't it just come up a treat :).
It just gave the paper that little extra and didn't give it the extra weight of a double mat
behind the patterned paper.

Next, because I didn't yet have the beautiful colours of the seam binding from the new range, I took a piece of white seam binding I had and inked it up in matching purples and green ink. To blend the colours together and get a softened look I spritzed the ribbon with water and then dried it off with my heat gun.

Next using the gorgeous Watercolour Butterfly Decorattor Die, I heat embossed the solid cut with gold embossing powder and the intricut butterfly with both gold and a matching green embossing powder to get a mottle affect.

Once I had finished constructing the card I added a little bit of Glitzin Glamour in
Lilac to the flowers.

PRODUCTS USED
ULT157761 - L'Aquarelle - 12x12" paper stack
ULT157752 - L'Aquarelle - Watercolour Butterfly Decorator Die
ULT200036 - Ultimate Crafts Cardstock - Leprechaun
ULT200045 - Ultimate Crafts Cardstock - Paper Bag
CO724988 - Couture Creations Embossing Powder - Super Sparkles - Gold
CO7721975 - Couture Creations Glitzin Glamour - Lilac
CO724389 - Turbo Precision Glue pen
CO721984 - 12mm Double Sided Tape


Thanks for stopping by.

Anita