Craft-A-Flower: Japanese Anemone Gold Ink Card Idea

Hi crafty friends, I’m passing by to share an easy and quick card idea using the new Craft-A-Flower: Japanese Anemone Die Set and Gold Inks by Altenew.

I’m a big fan of transparencies, metallic accents, golden or silver elements… everything that shines is good to me for cardmaking.

So for today, I used gold inks to add colour to die-cuts.

The process was effortless and the inks added a completely different look and feel to the Japanese Anemone …. it will do the same for any die-cut flower.

This is a large format card.
It measures 4-1/2″ x 8″ inches but you can use this idea to make cards, boxes or any other papercraft project in any size.
To make it, you will need just a handful of materials

Card Recipe

• Spellbinders Die cutting machine
• Craft-A-Flower: Japanese Anemone Layering Die Set
• White Smooth cardstock ( 300 grams).
• Antique Gold Pigment Ink
• Enchanted Gold Pigment Ink
• Rose Gold Pigment Ink
• Mini Blending Brush Set
• Gold Mirror Cardstock
  

The Cardmaking Process

• First, I die-cut all the pieces for the flowers out of 300 grams -smooth white cardstock.
• The flower stems and centres were cut out of gold mirror cardstock.
• The die-cuts have a keyhole system and they are numbered.
• Then, I applied:
  Antique Gold Pigment Ink to the die-cuts with the number 3.
  Enchanted Gold Pigment Ink to the die-cuts with the number 2
  Rose Gold Pigment Ink to the ones with the number 1 and the flower buttons.
  

• In this order of ideas, I tried to add the darkest metallic ink colour to the petals in the back and the lightest colour to the petals in the front.
• For some inexplicable reason, I added a hint of Rasberry Sunset Fresh ink in the centre of the petals and altered the ink colours ( I really didn’t want that but it was done.)
• For the leaves, I used Antique Gold Pigment Ink.
• Once the die-cuts were dry, I assembled the flowers and layered them on the front of the card as seen in the pictures.

That is all for today.
I hope you like this idea.
Happy Crafting
Bibi Cameron

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