SUPPLIES & TOOLS:
- Hero Arts Flower Garden Bold Prints
- Hero Arts Wonderful Stamp & Cut
- Hero Arts Clear Embossing & Watermark Ink
- Hero Arts Blue Hawaii Reactive Ink
- Hero Arts Grape Slush Reactive Ink
- Hero Arts Small Trio Acrylic Blocks
- Black Ink
- White Cardstock
- Black Cardstock
- Watercolor Paper
- Paintbrush
- Water Bottle
- Craft Mat (or any non-porous surface)
- Die Cutting Machine
- Paper Trimmer
- Liquid Adhesive
DIRECTIONS:
- Trim a piece of white cardstock to 4 1/4"x 11". Fold in half to create top-folding card base.
- Trim a piece of watercolor paper to 4 1/4"x 5 1/2".
- Stamp Flower Garden background on watercolor panel using Embossing & Watermark Ink.
- Apply Blue Hawaii and Grape Slush Reactive Inks to a non-porous work surface and spritz with water.
- Smoosh the stamped watercolor panel in the ink until completely covered. Allow to dry.
- Trim stamped panel down to 4 1/4"x 4". Adhere to the bottom portion of the white card base.
- Die cut the word "wonderful" three times from black cardstock. Adhere all three layers together using liquid glue.
- Adhere die cut word to card base with liquid adhesive.
- Stamp coordinating messages to sentiment using black ink.
JOANN HACKS:
- Use a heat tool to speed up the drying time of your background.
- Don't have a craft mat? Recycle some plastic packaging to use for your non-porous work surface.