Patterned paper … masterboard time

Today I have my usual use up the patterned paper challenge and this time I went for a masterboard using the Crafters Companion papers that a friend gifted me last year.

Lots of pieces of the papers on to some white cardstock and then some Kraft pieces mixed in. Added some stamping with Gorgeous Grunge and then added inks using my distress inks. Next up I added the iridescent texture paste through a stencil. I also splattered the shimmer ink too.

From this I made two cards … firstly the Mother’s Day card I made for my Mum and then a second card as a best wishes card.

I decided to create cards using the Stitching dies from the December kit from Spellbinders so once it was dry I die cut the two big scalloped panels from the masterboard.

I started with the Mother’s Day card first. I decided to add extra ink to the background to darken it up a little. Then I set it aside and worked on the embellishments for both cards … the stitched flowers. After die cutting them from Kraft for the leaves and petal pink for the flowers I grabbed my peach thread and started sewing.

Then I die cut the Love letters from the kit and stitched them too.

I then die cut some circles and the scalloped circle for the two larger flowers to sit on and then started adding elements to the card topper starting with the 6×6 Kraft base to go onto the 7×7 card blank.

I added a few layers of cardstock and the main scalloped element and then decided to use the Claritystamps letter stamps to create the rest of the sentiment (the ON is from a different claritystamps set) which after stamping I embossed to make it shiny and then fussy cut.

I added some pearls then around the card and called the front done!

The inside I added another panel which I had just cut and inked in a similar way, plus a piece of Kraft and one more flower image.

Given this is quite a long post already I will share the other card I made in a separate post. Please pop back to see that in a couple of days (DT post coming tomorrow).

Joining the challenge of add flowers at Here is a place to start

Happy crafting!

Catherine