Good Monday morning. Before I start with my project I want to offer you a chance to win ribbon blog candy. Who doesn’t love ribbon!!! Those of you that follow my blog know how much I love to shop at Ellen Hutson. With an order here and there I ended up with twelve of those wonderful one yard packages of May Arts satin ribbon “Thank You” gifts that Ellen tucks into each order. All you have to do to be entered into my random drawing is leave a comment on this post. You will have until 5:00 pm on Thursday the 17th to leave your comment. I will announce the winner on Friday the 18th.
I have another color wash project to share with you today. I wanted to use my Taylored Expressions Quatrefoil Cutting Plate and thought it would be such a perfect background for a puffy hydrangea. The stem and leaves are from the Impression Obsession Hydrangea set.
I used the negative cutouts from the quatrefoil die cut. I color washed all the pieces with water and undiluted pink reinker and heat dried with my heat gun. I color washed the stem and leaves using light green reinker and heat dried. I thought that the quatrefoil design would show better with a colored background so I ran my piece of cardstock under the faucet and used a waterbrush to apply reinker and spread it quickly while the paper was still very wet. I dried it with my heat gun and adhered it to the card base.
I formed the petals with my stylus and molding pad and I attached one flower inside the other with glossy accents to create a section of blossoms. I created twelve blossoms and attached them to the color washed hydrangea background from the die set. I used my leaf tool and leaf pad to score veins on the leaves. Here’s a closer view of the hydrangea and leaves.
I applied thin strips of mounting tape to the edges of the quatrefoil layer and one larger piece under the area where the hydrangea would sit and attached it to the card base. I attached the hydrangea, stem and leaves with glossy accents. I love the variation in the color of the blossoms. We will be sending this to my mother-in-law for Easter. I think she’ll love it.
Thanks for coming by today and I hope you have a wonderful week.
Card size: 5.50” x 4.25”
Your cards are sooooo amazing. Can’t wait to get mine in the mail…..thank you so much and keep up the great inspirational cards!!!
This is so beautiful and I love that cutting plate, it’s on my wishlist. I think it’s moving closer to the top now, lol. I would love to own more ribbon, thanks for the chance to win.
Hi Kitty – as usual you have made a very pretty card! Winning Blog Candy ribbon would be really fun! Thanks!
This is unbelievably gorgeous! It looks REAL!!! You are you talented and also so patient to do such intricate work.
Hello Kitty,
I love your cards very much and it is an every day job for me, to look at your blog.
This one is gorgeous: the colours and the technique how you made the blossoms – great!
I wood like to get a lottery ticket for your candy!
Best wishes from Kerstin W.
(I am from Germany and my English is not very good!)
Absolutely GORGEOUS, Kittie! The card design, colors and all of those tiny petals making up the hydrangea … Wow! 🙂
Beautiful card. I enjoy seeing all of your wonderful projects.
What a lovely card, the flower look so real, I love it
hugs Linda
Your card is STUNNING Kittie!!! It looks so real – love it! TFS how you made it!
Hugs,
Jan
Gorgeous card. They are all so inspiring. TFS!
So beautiful and realistic. How clever to use the cutouts from the die as your petals. I just found your blog a few weeks ago, thanks for giving such detailed instructions. Unfortunately, now I have a much longer ” to buy” list! 🙂
Hi Kittie,
What an amazing card! Thank you! I was laughing to myself when you said, ‘who doesn’t like ribbon’. Ribbon is another one of my addictions- I will buy it and then not want to use it because it is too pretty 🙂
I have only recently bought a Cuttlebug, I went searching for a way to make my own letters and numbers and was amazed to discover a whole new world. I found your website and have been enchanted with your cards: what a wonderful imagination you have. I love the hydrangea, flowers always cheer me up. We don’t seem to be well-supplied here in England with dies and sometimes it’s a struggle to buy them since our suppliers have to import all the time. I check your site every day, by the way.
This hydrangea is so life – like! Just another amazing beauty Kittie!
I think this is the most gorgeous and life-like pink hydrangea I have ever seen. It takes my breath away.
Absolutley Beautiful! I so look forward to seeing you’re post everyday and what beautifu creation you have made. Thank you for sharing.
gorgeous flowers as usual. Thanks also for a chance to win.
What a great idea to use the quatrefoil die cut as the flowers! It is the perfect size! Thank you for another stunning card.
This is gorgeous, Kitty! I love the colorwash background and the hydrangea which is stunning! Your mother-in-law will appreciate this beauty, I’m sure!
Your MIL is going to LOVE this!!! It’s stunning…as usual!!! I love Ellen Hutson. It feels like you’re getting VIP attention from them for their shipping is very fast!!
Your mother in law will be breathless over this card….absolutely gorgeous. Love the blossoms using the negative of the quatrefoil die…which I had to have. How are you mailing this?
This creation just leaves me breathless Kittie! I love, love, love this soft beautiful design. I have that die set, I bought it from Ellen after seeing one of your gorgeous creations with it. It’s just fabulous!
As always
As always Kittie, your work is incredible!
What a beautiful card. You are truly an inspiration.
I wanted the card to be extra special so I put it in a Crystal Clear Box that I get from Ellen’s. I tie a ribbon on it to look like a gift and mailed it in a padded envelope. Here’s a link to the box. They come in packages of 5. I hope this helps.
http://www.ellenhutson.com/servlet/the-2195/Crystal-Clear-Boxes%2C-A2%2C/Detail?affiliate_no=29
Wow! As usual, you’ve made a stunning card. The coloring you did for the hydrangea is just beautiful! Love it!
This card is absolutely spectacular. How ingenius to use the negative pieces from the quatrafoil die to make the petals. I, too, am a fan of Ellen Huston.. love all the products they carry and shipping is amazingly fast!! Thank you for the chance to win such great “candy” and thank you, too, for posting such beautiful creations and the tutorials for us to learn from. As a design team member, I know just how much work is involved in posting these tutorials and yours are amazing and informative. Have a great day! xxx Ann Marie
Gorgeous Hydrangea card. Im sure your MIL will love it, how could she not. I guess Im going to have to try the colorwash technique, Im not sure why Im afraid of it but am definately going to try it. I love the soft look of the color. Thanks for a chance to win some ribbon.
Your cards are always such an inspiration to me! You do an amazing job!!
This card is absolutely stunning! I just love the quatrefoil background, the softness of the color and that hydrangea looks like it was just picked … beautiful!
Good morning Kittie. Well this sure is another beautiful arrangement of flowers, your cards is gorgeous. Thanks for a chance to win some blog candy.
Good morning Kittie. I look forward every morning to receiving your posts. You are such an inspiration, not only to me but to everyone I share your creations with! Thanks for a chance to win some blog candy.
This is such a jaw-dropping, gorgeous card!! How creative to use the quatrefoil negative pieces for the flowers!
Kittie, gorgeous card as usual!! Your creations are always just amazing!
This card is so beautiful! The hydrangea is absolutely gorgeous!
Pam
scrap-n-sewgranny.blogspot.com
What a gorgeous card! Hydrangeas never looked so good!
Yes! Ribbon! I’d love to win your ribbon blog candy; do you suppose my cards will magically start looking as lovely as yours if I win the ribbon and start using it on my cards? A gal can dream……..
What a perfect re-creation of a hydrangea – the flowers are wonderful but the leaves really tickle my fancy! All so very real. You have got a precious gift Kittie, thank you for sharing with us in such detail.
Mary Mac
I am sure she will just love it, I like how you use the inner cuts for the flowers, lovely coloring of the background, flowers and leaves!
Absolutely stunning! The hydrangea is amazing.
Amazing! Please don’t enter me into the giveaway. I just wanted to tell you how beautiful this card is!
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Beautiful, beautiful, beautiful. I just love all your work!!
Thanks for a chance to win blog candy, yeah, no calories!
how very clever to use the negative pieces for your flowers! gorgeous!
and I want to tell you how much you have inspired me to use my dies for so much more than I had been. I actually made my first white on white card a few weeks ago, which I would have never done if you hadn’t inspired me to do so! (even though you have no idea who I am! grins!)
Wow Kittie….what a great idea to use the negative cutouts!!
You make a really wonderful hydrangea, I love that big, puffy flower!!
And the whole card too…
Thank you for sharing.
Hugs, Eva.
Hello, Your Hydrangea, looks so real!
I follow your work and always enjoy your
creations…
Many thanks, Cindi
Fab looking hydrangea (fab use of the negative space) and the leaves look real! Whenever I use water & then dry my card it tends to crinkle but this looks great.
Kittie, this card is jaw dropping amazingly gorgeous! I am sure your Mum-In-Love will love it! The Hydrangea is amazing! It is so very realistic and I love the colours and the colour wash technique you have used. The background behind the background is perfect. I love everything about this card. Thank you for sharing this amazing, creatively inspiring, gorgeous card.
Jacquelene L
Canada
Beautiful card..like the way you used the left-overs..your cards are always so great..thanks for sharing all your ideas with us..
Lovely card…that flower is Amazing!
Your hydrangea card is stunning! I love the variation in colours too.
Wonderful card. Such a soft shade of pink. I am now going to have to think again about that hydrangea die 🙂 tfs
Magnificent card. Just discovered you a few months ago and love your art. You are so inspiring. Thanks for teaching us how to make incredible cards.
I’m so impressed with how clever you are! I would never have thought to use all the little pieces you punched out and make such a beautiful flower from them!! Congrats!
This is so pretty I love the way you’ve done the Hydrangea 🙂 I’m sure your mom is going to love it 🙂
Absolutely beautiful! My favorite color. Would love to receive this card myself. 🙂
Gorgeous card, love the background die and the hydrangea. I know your mom will love the card.
I love the hydrangea…. I have a huge bush outside the window in my craft room but it has blue flowers. I much prefer your beautiful pink flower…. as always, your creativity amazes me…. Thank you for sharing your wonder creativity and for the possibility of winning some blog candy….
I love all your cards! very delicate looking with all the tiny little flowers you put on all your cards.
Beautiful! Love all that dimension. This die set has been on my wish list, but I haven’t ordered it yet!
Kittie, I think this is one of my favorite cards of yours, I love hydrangeas, so maybe that why. You certainly have a way with die and punches. Keep it going. Yes I would love some ribbon.
You always do a beautiful card. I love hydrangeas and have them as my screen picture on my computer. You’ve given me new inspiration on how to use my dies to create similar cards to yours.
AMAZING work, and beauty as always. I need to make two cards for my young granddaughters but, I really want to do this. TFS.
This is absoloutly gorgous. Your cards are all so amazing. Love them all.
I love this card….reminds me of the flowers in my yard….hydrangeas are so magnificant since they are not always the same color each year….
HOla
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Desde francia veo tus mensajes que son una maravilla.
Gracia por todo
Besitos
This card is fabulous!! The colors are so striking & the hydrangea just pops right off the page. So very real looking!! Love it!!
Beautiful,beautiful card! Love your hydrangea flower!
Absolutely the most beautiful card I have seen! The hydrangea is so lifelike! I look forward to following you for other great ideas!
This is wonderful. I never would have thought to use the negative bits from the die cut,to make the flowers. Absolutely exquisite.